Breeze and Wilson v Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary [2025] EWHC 2684

The High Court has dismissed a multi million  pound claim for  malicious prosecution and misfeasance in public office against Norfolk police. The claims arose out of the unsuccessful criminal prosecution of two owners of Cawston Park hospital, a private mental health facility, in 2009. Cotter J ruled that there was reasonable and probable cause for the prosecution, that the Crown Prosecution Service, not the police, was the prosecutor,  and that the investigating police officers had not acted maliciously. Andrew Warnock KC and  Charlotte Ventham KC, instructed by Weightmans LLP, represented the successful Chief Constable.