Advanced Actions Against the Police

FormatAmnesty International
Type:LAG Training Course
Last updated:2023-09-12
2018-11-09T09:00Z
Description: Advanced Actions Against the Police
This course will provide practitioners with a comprehensive update of developments in the law relating to liability, procedure, quantum, costs and funding of relevance to police actions (including claims against other detaining authorities)
Course Level: Advanced/ updating
Course date: 9 November 2018
Venue: Amnesty
Course Time: 9.00am-5.15 pm
Accreditation: 6 hours CPD
Lecturers’ Names: Fiona Murphy, Heather Williams QC, Phillippa Kaufmann QC and Tony Murphy
Description and brief synopsis
As with previous years, the course will bring practitioners up to speed in relation to all legal, procedural and funding developments of relevance to police law over the past year and afford opportunities to discuss tactics with fellow claimant lawyers. The trainers will draw on their knowledge of developments in related legal areas and the course will be of interest to all those involved in public interest litigation.
Practitioners are encouraged to communicate with the trainers through the PALG e-mail list to influence the particular focus of the course. The course will include practical tips, strategy and tactics for effective practice.
The course will provide a comprehensive update since the course was last delivered in September 2017 and will cover:
Topics Include:
Private law cases
Public law cases
Procedural developments
Quantum cases
Public and other funding developments
Please note that this course is for claimants' lawyers only
Aims and objectives
This course will provide practitioners with a comprehensive update of developments in the law relating to liability, procedure, quantum, costs and funding of relevance to police actions (including claims against other detaining authorities), since the course was last delivered in September 2017.
Area of specialism
The course is designed for practitioners acting for claimants who have a good understanding and experience of the issues involved in taking cases against the police. It assumes knowledge of civil actions, torts and principles in police action quantum cases.
Course materials/resources
Lecture format. Comprehensive course handouts will be distributed to all delegates. Questions and contributions from those involved in the cases under discussion are positively encouraged.
Details of speakers/trainers
Phillippa Kaufmann QC is a barrister at Matrix Chambers. She specialises in police and prison law, including civil actions, judicial reviews, miscarriage of justice cases and inquests. Recent cases of note includeAKJ v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (undercover cops engaging in fraudulent intimate sexual relations); R (Hicks) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (SC) (preventative arrest at Royal Wedding and Art 5); andDSD and NBV v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis(Investigative obligation and Art 3) (CA appeal pending in SC).
Fiona Murphy is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specialising in claims against the police and other detaining authorities, inquests and related public law work. Her notable cases include the Anthony Grainger Inquiry, the Hillsborough Inquests and R (Green) v Independent Police Complaints Commission (finding of irrationality in failure to conclude there was a case to answer for misconduct). She is currently instructed in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, the Undercover Policing Inquiry and on behalf of the family of Dalian Atkinson. She has 25 years experience representing victims of police misconduct and has retained the particular interest in civil procedure and the law relating to damages acquired in the course of her former practice as a solicitor.
Heather Williams QC is Head of the Doughty Street Chambers' Actions Against the Police Team. She is ranked as a Star practitioner in the Chambers & Partners 2018 Directory in the Police Law - Claimant category and is also highly ranked for Civil Liberties & Human Rights and Inquests & Inquiries work. She led a team representing a bereaved family at the Hillsborough Inquests, focusing on police failings and is lead counsel for the claimants in the subsequent misfeasance proceedings; she is instructed to act for various core participants, including Neville Lawrence and women deceived into sexual relationships, in the ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry; and she is appearing in the resumed Birmingham Pub Bombings inquests. She acts for the claimant in the Supreme Court appeal in R (Hallam) v SSJ (concerning whether the new statutory definition of a miscarriage of justice infringes presumption of innocence). She co-authors the bi-annual updates on police misconduct in Legal Action, co-wrote the LAG textbook, Police Misconduct: Legal Remedies (4th ed) and is working on a new edition.
Tony Murphy is a partner at Bhatt Murphy solicitors specialising in litigating against the police and other public authorities on behalf of those who have suffered abuse at the hands of the criminal justice system. His cases include OOO v The Commissioner of Police (first finding of a breach of Article 4 by the police in this jurisdiction); ZH v The Commissioner (first finding of a substantive breach of Article 3 by the police in this jurisdiction); Bijan Ebrahimi deceased (two police officers convicted for misconduct in public office and over 15 disciplined re: failure to protect from racists); and theAnthony Grainger Public Inquiry. Tony is a co-author of the police misconduct updates in the Legal Action Journal and of the forthcoming edition of the LAG book on Police Misconduct.
Booking rates
Commercial rate: £215 + VAT - commercial organisations including barristers and solicitors in private practice.
Standard rate: £205 + VAT - statutory and not for profit organisations.
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