The right result

[anonymous-user]

Really drunk woman sues the police for changing her out of vomit soaked clothes after being arrested for being drunk. How do these things even get to court in the first place but the Judge made the right decision in my book.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-5...

[Pesty]

Whoever had to change her clothes should sue her for cruel and unusual punishment.

[Drumroll]

How did it ever get to court?

[kestral]

Drumroll said:

How did it ever get to court?

Legal aid maybe. Human rights 6(1)(B).may involve consideration of a substantial question of law;

The judge says her claim had been brought "to establish the liberty of inebriated English subjects to be allowed to lie undisturbed overnight in their own vomit-soaked clothing".

And. Ms Pile had also claimed being monitored on CCTV while in a cell was a breach of her privacy.

Lawyers just making money. "oh no, no we really did only persue the case because we thought it was important a person should be allowed to lay all night in their vomit-soaked clothing" honest.

[ninepoint2]

Can't be too many with that name from Liverpool surely?

https://impactcasting.co.uk/extra/cheryl-pile/

Not saying that this is her, simply pointing out what Google turns up..all my own opinion to any lawyers out there...

[anonymous-user]

Libel law does not work as you appear to think that it does. Your post would be interpreted as suggesting that the person in the link is the claimant in the absurd case. The post has no other purpose. The post contains no expression of opinion.

That is fine if the person in the link is the person in the case. It is not fine if they are two different people. That is why newspapers usually state age and as precise an address as they can when naming someone who has done something discreditable.

It is very unlikely that legal aid would have funded this bonkers claim. It got to court because the ridiculous claimant wouldn't give up. Ultimately, the only way to end a rubbish claim is for a Judge to determine that the claim is rubbish, as Mr Justice Turner elegantly did in this case.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 20th September 09:20

[anonymous-user]

The full judgment, written in a witty manner, is here -

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2020/2472....

[mygoldfishbowl]

ninepoint2 said:

Can't be too many with that name from Liverpool surely?

https://impactcasting.co.uk/extra/cheryl-pile/

Not saying that this is her, simply pointing out what Google turns up..all my own opinion to any lawyers out there...

Seems a bit over skilled to me.