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Rigby v Chief Constable of Northamptonshire [1985] 2 All ER 985; [1985] 1 WLR 1242
This case considered the issue of negligence and whether or not a police officer was negligent when they fired a gas canister into a house when they knew it was a fire risk and that the fire department was not available.
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