This revised and expanded edition provides assistance to lawyers and advisers contemplating any kind of proceedings against the police. Readers are guided through the practice and procedure of police complaints, civil litigation, criminal actions, official and unofficial inquiries, applications for judicial review, complaints to the European Commission of Human rights and inquests. The book also deals with the special problems of wrongful convictions, criminal injuries and property taken by the police, and it contains practical illustrations and precedents, including letters and particulars of claim. The full texts of the Police Disciplinary Code and 1991 PACE codes of practice are reproduced.