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<p>The table below shows the total amounts claimed against closed false imprisonment
matters from the 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 financial years. These matters cover
domestic false imprisonment, and both legal and illegal immigration false imprisonment
matters.</p><p>The claim values represent the total amounts paid against cases closing
in the respective period, and as such, some of the expenditure against these cases
may have been incurred in earlier periods. The costs are recorded as falling in the
category Actions Against the Police.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial
Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Claim Value</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£191,556.33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£134,999.82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£517,980.45</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>
</strong></p><p> </p><p>The increase in claim value in 2013/14 compared to previous
years is largely due to one case which started in 2002, for which a final bill was
submitted in January 2014. This case, known as Austin and Saxby, was a test case on
behalf of a much larger group of individuals relating to protests on May Day 2002.
They claimed that they had been unlawfully subjected to the procedure known as kettling
by the Metropolitan Police. The case went to the House of Lords (Supreme Court) where
they lost and the law was eventually clarified.</p><p> </p>
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