Late release

You can sue for false imprisonment if you were released late from prison. This can happen as a result of:

miscalculation of your sentence release date
failure to take into account qualifying days on remand / on tag
prison slow to respond  after you had been granted bail

You can also sue for false imprisonment if you’ve fallen victim of a late release from prison. This can happen when, for example:

• the police believed that there were conditions on your bail (when there weren’t) or their record of your bail conditions was inaccurate
• the police believe that there was a court warrant for your arrest, when in fact that warrant had been withdrawn, or had already been dealt with