0 the limiting of someone's freedom without the authority or right to do so:
He brought civil proceedings against the police for false imprisonment.
The police are then inhibited because they know that if they make a mistake they can be sued for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.
Those cases are fraud, libel and slander, false imprisonment, seduction and breach of promise of marriage.
Consider the case where the man does not use habeas corpus but issues his writ for false imprisonment.
Later that day, he was charged with grievous bodily harm and false imprisonment.
Whether the act of false imprisonment takes place in an aircraft or on the ground at an airport, it is a criminal offence.
The third consequence that we must consider touches on cases such as false imprisonment and malicious prosecution which are tried by jury.
That will remove the absurd risk of prosecution for false imprisonment.
Those of us who practise in the criminal and civil courts know how difficult it is to establish a claim for false imprisonment.
