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Misfeasance in public office is a cause of action in the civil courts of England and Wales and certain Commonwealth countries. It is an action against the holder of a public office , alleging in essence that the office-holder has misused or abused their power. [ 1 ]
The similarly-named misfeasance in public office is a tort. [10] [11] In the House of Lords judgement in the BCCI case, it was held that this had three essential elements: [12] The defendant must be a public officer; The defendant must have been exercising his power as a public officer;
Watkins v Home Office and others [2006] UKHL 17, was a United Kingdom legal case heard by the House of Lords where the Home Office made an appeal as to whether the tort of misfeasance in public office was actionable in the absence of proof of pecuniary losses or injury of a mental or physical nature.
Ashby v White (1703) 92 ER 126, is a foundational case in UK constitutional law and English tort law.It concerns the right to vote and misfeasance of a public officer. Lord Holt laid down the important principle that where there is injury in the absence of financial loss (injuria sine damno) the law makes the presumption of damage and that it is sufficient to demonstrate that a right has been ...
The solicitors said the charges were dropped 15 months later, and Ms Edmunds sued the force for breaching her human rights, false imprisonment, assault, misfeasance in public office and malicious ...
Misfeasance in public office Three Rivers District Council v Governor of the Bank of England [2001] UKHL 16 [ 3 ] is a UK banking law and EU law case concerning government liability for the protection of depositors and the preliminary ruling procedure in the European Union.
Weir and 48,000 other shareholders of Railtrack claimed that Stephen Byers’ decision to force Railtrack into administration amounted to the tort of misfeasance in public office and a breach of the Human Rights Act 1998, based upon the theory that their property had been deprived. The shareholders collectively managed to raise £4m together to ...
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