United Kingdom misfeasance in public officestriking outpublic authority liability

Carter v The Chief Constable of Cumbria Police

[2008] EWHC 1072 (QB)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHigh Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Year2008

StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

A claim for misfeasance in public office requires properly particularised allegations of bad faith (targeted malice, or knowledge of or reckless indifference to the illegality of an act and the probability of resulting harm); inadequately pleaded claims that conflate negligence with misfeasance will be struck out.

Area of Law

General

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