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Modern libel and slander laws in many countries are originally descended from English defamation law.The history of defamation law in England is somewhat obscure; civil actions for damages seem to have been relatively frequent as far back as the Statute of Gloucester in the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). [1]
This article includes only those serving police officers who were killed as a direct result of a crime or while attempting to respond, prevent, stop or solve a specific criminal act. The list omits war-time deaths by enemy fire, such as the many police officers killed by air raids during the Second World War. [1]
First time a UK police officer was convicted for a death in custody. Gerard Logue (8 February 1985 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) – shot while sitting in a stolen car. [138] Sean McIlvenna (17 December 1984 in Blackwatertown, Northern Ireland) – IRA member, shot after being involved in a roadside bomb attack. [138]
Some common law jurisdictions distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. [26] The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting ...
A Cambridgeshire police officer has been dismissed following a misconduct hearing. PC James Roper was sacked after a disciplinary panel found he had breached standards of professional behaviour by ...
SALISBURY, England (Reuters) -A British woman killed by the Novichok nerve agent following the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was caught in the "crossfire" of an ...
Matiu Ratana (3 May 1966 – 25 September 2020) was a New Zealand-born British police sergeant who was shot dead at Croydon police station in London on 25 September 2020. He was nearing retirement having served in the Metropolitan Police for nearly 30 years when he became the first police officer to be fatally shot in the UK since the murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone in 2012.
See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in Germany [68] Hong Kong: Asia 1 1 0 0 0 7,392,000 1.3 2019 See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in China [69] Portugal: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,290,000 1.0 2018 [70] Sweden: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,327,589 1.0 2019 [71] Taiwan: Asia 2 2 0 0 0 23,580,000 0.8 2018 [72] United Kingdom