Rogers, J (2005) Shoot, identify and repent? New Law Journal , 155 (7190) 1273 - 1274.
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Abstract
I argued that the officers who shot Jean Charles de Menezes would be likely to escape prosecution for murder but should be liable in a civil suit. This would be so either because of the narrow test for "reasonable mistake" in self-defence in a suit for battery, or because there should be a duty of care in negligence to suspected terrorists to minimise the risk that it would be thought necessity to shoot them in order to prevent an atrocity.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Shoot, identify and repent? |
| Additional information: | Cited by Professor Steele in the Modern Law Review, and by Gillespie in The English Legal System (OUP, 2007) |
| Keywords: | de Menzes shooting, crime prevention, civil liability, battery, negligence |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of Arts and Social Sciences > Faculty of Laws |
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