ASSAULT BY POLICE
Judgment For Plaintiff f.V.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. July 19. Judgment for Cyril Francis ood. aged 59, for £5OO damages for assault bv the police in 1964 was entered today by Mr Justice Gresson. He ruled that Wood was not entitled to £lOO for malicious prosecution by the police, as assessed by a jury last month. Wood had claimed £3OOO damages from the AttorneyGeneral representing the Police Department. for alleged wrongful imprisonment. malicious prosecution, and assault. Mr G. D. Speight, for the Crown, submitted the verdict on malicious prosecution could not be valid according to the jury’s submissions on various points of fact. His Honour said Wood had entirely failed to discharge the burden of proving an absence of reasonable and probable cause for his prosecution by the police. He awarded Wood costs and special damages, as agreed between the parties.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30807, 20 July 1965, Page 3
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