{"id":188,"date":"2005-04-23T05:18:23","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T05:18:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-04-23T05:18:23","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T05:18:23","slug":"brooks-v-chief-of-the-police-for-the-metropolis-2005-hl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Brooks v Chief of the Police for the Metropolis [2005] HL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Tort &#8211; duty of care &#8211; police &#8211; fair just and reasonable]<br \/><\/strong>D the police who it was alleged failed to treat C properly as a victim of crime. As a result, he suffered a very severe post-traumatic stress disorder. C (Duwayne Brooks) was present when his friend Stephen Lawrence was abused and murdered in the most notorious racist killing&nbsp;which our country has ever known. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: The police should not have imposed on them a duty of care to since to do so would cut across the freedom of action they ought to have when investigating serious crime. <\/p>\n<p><strong>C lost.<\/strong> <br \/>Whole judgment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk\/pa\/ld200405\/ldjudgmt\/jd050421\/brooks-1.htm\">here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tort &#8211; duty of care &#8211; police &#8211; fair just and reasonable]D the police who it was alleged failed to treat C properly as a victim of crime. As a result, he suffered a very severe post-traumatic stress disorder. C (Duwayne Brooks) was present when his friend Stephen Lawrence was abused and murdered in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}