[2009] EWHC 299 (Admin)

A police officer's course of conduct in gaining entry to a house without permission and approaching the occupant in order to search her was entirely lawful under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 s.17(1), and accordingly the occupant's assault on the officer was an assault on a police constable in the execution of his duty.

DC (Sir Anthony May (President QB), Silber J)

27/01/2009