REASONABLE AND PROBABLE CAUSE IN AN ACTION FOR MALICIOUS PROSECUTION

• Date: 06 February 2019

(1) "As to the requirement for reasonable and probable cause, absence of which the plaintiff has to prove in the instant case, he has shown that no probable or reasonable cause existed for the appellant to lodge the complaint against him. The reasonable and probable cause to my mind, entails the defendant having in his possession as a reasonable and sane person, a set of facts which to an ordinary man would lead to the conclusion that the plaintiff has committed a criminal offence." - Per ...