Monday, December 17, 2012

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A mentally ill Canberra man shot by police and made a quadriplegic has lost his battle for compensation.Jonathan Crowley was shot in the neck by police during a psychotic episode in 2001.Mr Crowley took the Australian Federal Police and ACT Mental Health to court in 2008 seeking compensation.Last year in the Supreme Court, Justice Hillary Penfold found police and ACT Mental Health had breached their duty of care in their handling of the case and Mr Crowley was awarded compensation of $8 million.But police and ACT Mental Health appealed against the decision and today the Court of Appeal overturned the original ruling.

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