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OLW 204 Law of Tort-Part I,AGGREY WAKILI

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actively causing his confinement or preventing him from exercising his privilege 
of leaving the place in which he is. 
 
It is now regarded as a sufficient deprivation of freedom of the driver of a car 
proceeds at such a speed as to prevent a passenger from alighting. For 
example X is a passenger of a saloon car driven by Y. Y, despite protestations of 
X proceeds at high speed past a place where X is supposed to alight. Restraint, 
for the purposes of False Imprisonment must occur against the plaintiff's will, so 
that voluntary compliance with a police request to accompany the Defendant to 
clear himself does not necessarily amount to imprisonment. 
 
Read: 
Alderson V. Booth (196) 2 QB 216

 
Likewise, a summons by telephone to call at the police does not necessarily 
amount to imprisonment: 
 
Read:
 Ferguson V. Jensen (1920) 53 DLR 616.
 
 
Although The Tort of False Imprisonment is a species of Trespass, it need not 
involve the use of actual force or direct physical contact. It is adequate for the 
purposes of False Imprisonment if there is a constraint upon a person's will, so 
great as to induce him to submit. 
 
The Tort of False Imprisonment is established if Plaintiff is not discharged as a 
prisoner at the end of his sentence: 


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Read:
 Morriss v. Winter (1930) IKB 243.
 
 
Difference between Malicious Prosecution and False Imprisonment
 
An action of both the Torts of Trespass and False Imprisonment will not lie

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