To provide Indemnity to Legally Qualified
Persons and Independent Panel Members for Police Misconduct Panel
arranged thus far for 2024/25 in accordance with the additional
wording recommended by the Association of Police and Crime
Commissioners as follows: -
In respect of the case of ....... which is to be held on
………. the Greater Manchester Combined Authority
(the legal entity in which the property, rights and liabilities of
Police and Crime Commissioner for the Greater Manchester area are
vested) agrees to indemnify you as the Legally Qualified Person
(“LQP”)/ Independent Panel Member (“IPM”)
in respect of: -
(i) any liabilities arising (including reasonable costs as agreed
with you in connection with responding to or engaging with any
legal proceedings or matters arising from the discharge of your
functions as an LQP/IPM) for anything done or omitted to be done by
you in the discharge of those functions unless, having received
representations or submissions by or on your behalf, you are proved
in a court of law or other tribunal with appropriate jurisdiction
to have acted in bad faith. Furthermore, in the event of your being
held to have any liability for anything done or omitted to be done
by another member of the Panel of which you are part, the GMCA
agrees to indemnify you in full in respect of any such
liability.
(ii) any costs you may incur as a consequence of your being in
receipt of a witness summons/order (or an application therefor) to
give evidence in any court or tribunal of whatever nature
concerning and/or relating to your and/or the Panel’s
conducting of those proceedings and/or the decisions of the Panel
in those proceedings. For the avoidance of doubt, this indemnity
includes, but is not limited to, any costs you may incur:
• In seeking legal advice in relation to the receipt of a
witness summons/order or an application therefor.
• In relation to the preparation of any representations and/or
witness statements in relation to an application for a witness
summons/order and/or in relation to an application to set aside the
issuing of a witness summons/order.
• In relation to securing legal representation at any hearing
of an application for a witness summons/order and/or the hearing of
any application to set aside the issuing of a witness
summons/order.
• In relation to the costs (including costs of legal
representation) of participating in any appeal and/or application
for judicial review (and any appeal therefrom) arising as a
consequence of your being in receipt of an application for a
witness summons/order or an application therefor; and
• In relation to attending a hearing or hearings, including
the time spent thereat.
However, save where the issue/matter needs to be addressed by you
immediately, no costs to which this indemnity applies should be
incurred by you before you have notified the Director Police,
Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire of the GMCA of the nature and
extent of the issue/matter giving rise to a claim under
it.