Bobby Talalay represented the Metropolitan Police in high-value assault claim attracting national media attention

Bobby Talalay was instructed by the Defendant in Loxton v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. The claimant is a ballet dancer who claimed that he suffered an ankle injury that ended his career as a result of a stop and search in 2016. The case has received national media attention (for example in the Times, Daily Mail, and Classic FM).

Mr Loxton attended Kennington police station in September 2016 to retrieve his motorcycle visor that had been seized for forensic testing. When there, he twice peered through the locked gates to the bike yard to see if he could see his moped, which had been stolen in a separate incident and which he thought might be in the yard. This aroused the suspicions of officers present and he was detained for a search. It is said by the Claimant that he suffered a career-ending ankle injury from the force used to detain him. The lawfulness of the search was in dispute, as was the proportionality of the force used by officers in its execution.

The claim was for £600,000 in damages. The vast majority of that was for past and future loss of earnings, much of which was the subject of factual dispute as well as disputes over causation, career trajectory, and mitigation of loss.

Judgment was reserved.

Bobby has extensive experience of acting on behalf of police forces and other organisations in high-value personal injury claims, often arising from assault, as well as complex human rights matters, false imprisonment claims, civil data protection and privacy litigation, other areas such as stress at work claims, malfeasance claims, and other civil actions.