[2009] EWHC 3353 (Admin)

Where the arrest of an individual by a police officer was unlawful, other police officers who saw what was happening and went to assist their colleague in the arrest were not acting in the execution of their duty, so that an individual who used reasonable force to resist those police officers was not guilty of an offence contrary to the Police Act 1996 s.89(2).

DC (Laws LJ, Lloyd Jones J)

24/11/2009