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R (on the application of JANE LAPORTE) v (1) CHIEF CONSTABLE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY (2) CHIEF CONSTABLE OF THAMES VALLEY POLICE (3) THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS (2004)

PUBLISHED February 19, 2004
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[2004] EWHC 253 (Admin)

Detention by police of passengers on a coach en route to an anti-war demonstration and their forced return to London was an unlawful breach of their human rights because there had been no immediate apprehended breach of peace and the detention on the coach went far beyond permitted transitory detention.

DC (Harrison J, May LJ)

19/02/2004

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