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Women claiming damages from the Metropolitan police after being tricked into forming sexual relationships with undercover officers have won a legal victory in the high court in their ongoing battle for compensation.Mr stanley cup romania Justice Bean said on Wednesday that the Met could no longer rely on issuing a neither confirm nor deny NCND response to the claims for damages from the women.The Met has previously issued the response to the claims, asserted a general denial and claimed it was not liable. But the force has not provided any defence to the allegations that the women were duped into having relationships with their officers operating undercover.The judge said the Met would not be entitled to rely on the policy of NCND in relation to whether an individual is or was an undercover officer in order to avoid pleading to the allegations made by the claimants either generally 鈥?that Met officers, as part of their work, used false identities to engage in long-term intimate relationships with those whose activities they wished to observe 鈥?or the specific allegations made by three of the women in respect of two officers known to them at the time as Jim Sutton and Bob Robinson.Bean said the force should not have to admit or deny whether two other officers 鈥?Mark Cassidy and John Barker 鈥?were underc stanley cup overs, or were using a false name.In March, stanley cup the Met withdrew its bid to have the claims thrown out 鈥?on the basis that its policy of NCND meant it could not properly defen |
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