POLICE

R (Smith) v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805 (Admin)

Judicial review of the Chief Constable of Northumbria Police force for encouraging officers to march in uniform alongside Pride supporters.  The judgment found that the Chief Inspector acted irrationally in allowing this, that Northern Pride was a political organisation, and that officers had been in breach of their duty of impartiality by marching.  This case has had a significant effect on the conduct of police forces across Britain.  CONCLUDED

 

Miller v The Independent Office for Police Conduct 
 

This is an important challenge to the impartiality of England’s police conduct regulator.  A judicial review challenge by Harry Miller, co-founder of Faircop, of the IOPC's support of Pride events and in particular, participating in Pride 2025. This follows on from the Northumbria case above, where Northern Pride was found to be political in its aims. Mr Miller wants to ensure that the IOPC is following its duty of impartiality.  Permission to proceed to judicial review has been granted.  ONGOING

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Phillimore v Wiltshire police​

 

Our claimant, Sarah Phillimore, co-founder of Faircop, is bringing a judicial review challenge of Wiltshire police force’s participation in Pride marches, following on from the Northumbria case above.  She alleges that as a gender critical person, she and the many others who share her beliefs cannot be confident of fair treatment by the Wiltshire police.  ONGOING

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Miller v Lincolnshire Police 

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A judicial review challenge of the lawfulness of the Home Office policy for recording hate crimes in England and the way in which this is being applied by England’s police forces.  ONGOING