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The definition of false imprisonment under UK law and legislation is the "Unlawful imposition or constraint of another's freedom of movement from a particular place." [14] False imprisonment is where the defendant intentionally or recklessly, and unlawfully, restricts the claimant's freedom of movement totally. [15]
Kaspar Hauser, Nuremberg, Germany, 16 years. [50]Marvin L. Maple, US, arrested in 2009 for kidnapping his grandchildren, 20 years earlier.; Colleen Stan, US, an American woman who was kidnapped and held captive between 1977 and 1984.
The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [119] The cases involved claims that a pedophile sex ring performed Satanic ritual abuse: as many as 60 young children testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years imprisoned. 34 convictions were ...
EC Law in Judicial Review. Oxford University Press. 2007. Paragraph 9.99. "Liability for false imprisonment". The Digest. Volume 37(4). Title "Prisons". Case 7268. Stephen Livingstone, Tim Owen and Alison Macdonald. Prison Law. Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press. 2008. Paragraphs 13.47 and 14.62 at page 523 and 601. Julian B Knowles.
The following cases are the only ones where the Government has paid compensation for a wrongful conviction, [107] except for Peter Ellis who died before the Supreme Court in New Zealand overturned his convictions. Notably, in New Zealand, there is no right to compensation for wrongful convictions or false imprisonment. [108]
WL (Congo) v Home Secretary was a 2011 legal case decided by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The case decided that the unlawful imprisonment of foreign prisoners gives rise to the tort of false imprisonment without the need to prove damages even where it is demonstrated that they would have been imprisoned had power been lawfully ...
The protesters were charged with felony conspiracy, false imprisonment, trespassing to interfere with a business, obstruction of a San Francisco prosecutors charge 26 pro-Palestinian demonstrators ...
False arrest, unlawful arrest or wrongful arrest is a common law tort, where a plaintiff alleges they were held in custody without probable cause, or without an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction. Although it is possible to sue law enforcement officials for false arrest, the usual defendants in such cases are private security firms.