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At whose instance an action for false imprisonment will lie

Elements of the tort of false imprisonment

How to determine that there is reasonable cause for an arrest in an action for false imprisonment

How to determine whether a defendant is actively responsible for the arrest of the plaintiff

How to determine whether the defendants directed the police in the investigation, arrest and detention of the plaintiff or they Police acted on their own discretion

Meaning of false imprisonment

The basis for an action in false imprisonment

The principle that a person would be liable to pay damages for false imprisonment where he makes a false report against another person

The principle that the police has a legal duty to determine the course of action to follow where a complaint or petition of commission of crime has been lodged

The rule that the plaintiff must also plead and establish that there was no reasonable and probable cause for making the report made to the Police

What a claimant must prove in an action for false imprisonment

What a plaintiff must prove to succeed in an action in false imprisonment

What constitutes false imprisonment

What false imprisonment entails

When an action will lie for false imprisonment

When the defendant will be held liable for arrest and false imprisonment

Whether a complainant who directed a wrongful imprisonment is liable for false imprisonment

Whether a defendant who acts through another to effect the unlawful arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff is directly liable for such acts

Whether a person is liable for false imprisonment where he acts in the interest of justice and for the protection of the society at large

Whether a person who deliberately gave false information to the Police is liable for false imprisonment

Whether a statement admitted in evidence which admits to the writing of a letter to the Police amounts to the tort of false imprisonment

Whether an action for false imprisonment will lie against a defendant who merely gave information to the police

Whether false imprisonment postulates false arrest

Whether preferring a complaint which results in an issue of warrant after which a man is taken into custody makes a person liable for false imprisonment

Whether proof of malice displaces the necessity to prove actual direction or authorisation

Whether the defendant will be liable for false imprisonment where the law enforcement authorities state that their actions were on their own initiative

Whether the plaintiff must have been locked up in four walls to constitute imprisonment

Whether the plaintiff must prove that the imprisonment was unlawful

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