In Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1989] AC 53, the mother of the last victim of Peter Sutcliffe, the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’, sued the police for negligently failing to apprehend Sutcliffe earlier. He had been questioned by police and released and had subsequently murdered again. The House of Lords refused to impose a duty of care as there was insufficient proximity between any woman, as a potential victim of a crime, and the police. Also, on policy grounds, [...]and may result in both a waste of resources and inefficient use of police manpower.
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the threat of liability in such cases would lead to the police adopting defensive practices
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In Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1989] AC 53, the mother of the last victim of Peter Sutcliffe, the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’, sued the police for negligently failing to apprehend Sutcliffe earlier. He had been questioned by police and released and had subsequently murdered again. The House of Lords refused to impose a duty of care as there was insufficient proximity between any woman, as a potential victim of a crime, and the police. Also, on policy grounds, [...]and may result in both a waste of resources and inefficient use of police manpower.
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#duty #law #negligence #tort
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In Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [1989] AC 53, the mother of the last victim of Peter Sutcliffe, the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’, sued the police for negligently failing to apprehend Sutcliffe earlier. He had been questioned by police and released and had subsequently murdered again. The House of Lords refused to impose a duty of care as there was insufficient proximity between any woman, as a potential victim of a crime, and the police. Also, on policy grounds, [...]and may result in both a waste of resources and inefficient use of police manpower.
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the threat of liability in such cases would lead to the police adopting defensive practices
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