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Title: | Constitutional protections of liberty and the tort of false imprisonment |
Author: | Veitch, E. |
Year: | 1972 |
Periodical: | University of Ghana Law Journal |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 66-81 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | rule of law detention torts |
Abstract: | This article, which is meant as a comment on that of S.K. Date-Bah (Univ. of Ghana Law Jl., 7(1970), 1, p. 66) aims 1. to support in general the view that the tort of false imprisonment protects a mental interest and that the victim's knowledge of his restraint is essential; 2. to suggest that the common law is non-absolute in its protection of the interest involved and that the Constitutional draftsmen have created a separate cause of action in the provisions guaranteeing the citizen freedom from arbitrary arrest; 3. to report on the law relating to unlawful detention in the East African legal systems. In so doing it is proposed that arrested persons may require increased rather than lessened protections. Notes. |