KB-2024-000763 - [2025] EWHC 2791 (KB)
Fecha: 30-Oct-2025
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Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before :
MASTER STEVENS
Between :
Kuldeep Singh Mahal | Claimant |
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The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (incorrectly sued as Sir Mark Rowley) | Defendant |
Kuldeep Singh Mahal representing himself as the Claimant
Beatrice Collier(instructed by Weightmans LLP) for the Defendant
Hearing dates: 10th July 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 4.30pm on 30th October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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MASTER STEVENS
Master Stevens:
INTRODUCTION
This application was brought by the Defendant to strike out the Claimant’s case or alternatively to order summary judgment in favour of the Defendant.
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- BACKGROUND
- INITIAL POLICE DECISION
- REVIEW OF INITIAL DECISION
- COMPLAINT TO PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS UNIT (“PSU”)
- JUDICIAL REVIEW
- THIS CIVIL CLAIM
- THE LEGAL TESTS ON SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND ON STRIKE OUT
- OVERLAP BETWEEN SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND STRIKE-OUT APPLICATIONS & RELEVANT CASE LAW
- THE DEFENDANT’S APPLICATION
- Paragraphs 31 (Breach of Duty) and 32 (Breach of Statutory Duty)
- Paragraph 34 (Negligent Mis-statement) and Paragraph 35 (Negligent Mis-Statement)
- Paragraph 37 (Breach of Contract)
- Paragraphs 41, 42 and 43 (Malfeasance, Misfeasance and Nonfeasance)
- NO REASONABLE GROUNDS/MISCONCEIVED
- Paragraph 33 (Due process)
- Paragraph 36 (Professional negligence)
- Paragraph 38 (Breach of duty of care)
- NO REAL PROSPECT OF SUCCESS
- Paragraphs 44 - 46 (Human Rights Act claims)
- Conclusions