Where a music festival organiser had expressed its hope that the police would deploy officers on the festival site as they had done in previous years, but in fact the police deployed their officers mostly in the communities surrounding the festival site and the festival organiser hired private security for the site, the organiser was not liable to pay the police under the Police Act 1996 s.25(1) because there had been no request and the services provided were not "special police services".

[2006] EWCA Civ 524