Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire

Parliamentary Archives,
HL/PO/JU/18/251

Copoc and others (Appellants) v. Wright (sued as Chief

Constable of the South Yorkshire Police (Respondent)

Alcock and others (Appellants) v. Wright (sued as Chief

Constable of the South Yorkshire Police) (Respondent)

(Consolidated Appeals)

JUDGMENT

Die Jovis 28° Novembris 1991

Upon Report from the Appellate Committee to whom was
referred the Cause Alcock and others against Wright (sued as
Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police) and Copoc and
others against Wright (sued as Chief Constable of the South
Yorkshire Police), That the Committee had heard Counsel as
well on Monday the 7th as on Tuesday the 8th, Wednesday the
9th, Thursday the 10th and Monday the 14th days of October
last upon the Petitions and Appeals of Robert Alcock, of 5,
Hayes Drive, Melling, Merseyside; Catherine Marea Jones, of
9, Empress Close, Green Park, Maghull, Merseyside; Joseph
Kehoe, of 48, Blackhorse Lane, Liverpool; and Alexandra Penk,
of 58 Carr Lane, West Derby, Liverpool; and of Agnes and
Harold Copoc, of 4, Greenleigh Road, Mossley Hill, Allerton,
Liverpool; Brian Harrison, of 42, Kiln Croft, Brookvale,
Runcorn, Cheshire; Brenda Julie Hennessey, of 85, Stonedale
Crescent, Liverpool; Denise Hough, of 97, Bark Road,
Litherland, Liverpool; and Stephen Jones, of 53, Ashgrove,
Bradford, South Yorkshire praying that the matter of the
Orders set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely Orders of Her
Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 3rd day of May 1991, might be
reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of
Parliament and that the said Orders might be reversed, varied
or altered or that the Petitioners might have such other
relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her
Court of Parliament might seem meet; as upon the case of Peter
Wright lodged in answer to the said Appeals; which said
Appeals were by an Order of this House of the 1st day of July
1991 Consolidated; and due consideration had this day of what
was offered on either side in this Cause:

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen
assembled, That the said Orders of Her Majesty's Court of
Appeal of the 3rd day of May 1991 complained of in the said
Appeals be, and the same are hereby, Affirmed, except insofar
as they relate to costs awarded against those plaintiffs who
were legally aided in that Court and who appealed to this
House; and that the said Petitions and Appeals be, and the
same are hereby, dismissed this House: And it is further
Ordered, That the costs of the respondent in this House, and
his costs in the Court of Appeal so far as there awarded
against those plaintiffs who were legally aided in that Court
and who appealed to this House, be paid out of the Legal Aid
Fund, such order to be suspended for four weeks to allow the
Legal Aid Board to object if they wish: And it is also
further Ordered,