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 only remedy that any citizen has got in such circumstances is an action for false imprisonment.
It exists, for example, in an action for false imprisonment.
Would he have any defence to an action for false imprisonment?
They are cases of fraud, cases of libel, cases of slander, cases of malicious prosecution, cases of false imprisonment, and one or two others.
People who feel that they have been done an injustice in terms of false imprisonment or malicious prosecution can commence civil proceedings.
He can, for instance, if their law is the same as ours, bring an action for false imprisonment.
In those circumstances it occurs to us unlikely that a court would be sympathetic towards any claim of 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.
