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| Police officers have been given permission to launch a High Court challenge to a government decision not to backdate their pay rise. | Police officers have been given permission to launch a High Court challenge to a government decision not to backdate their pay rise. |
| Mr Justice Collins said he had "no hesitation" in ruling there was a case to apply for judicial review. | |
| Police Federation lawyers are challenging a Home Office decision not to backdate a 2.5% pay rise for police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. | |
| The federation says the decision means the rise is only 1.9% in annual terms. | The federation says the decision means the rise is only 1.9% in annual terms. |
| Its lawyers told the High Court officers had a "legitimate expectation" they would receive the full 2.5% increase decided through the independent Police Arbitration Tribunal. | |
| While officers in Scotland are having their 2.5% pay rise backdated to 1 September - the start of the police pay year - as the tribunal recommended, those in other areas are receiving it in full only from December. | |
| This, officers say, will amount in real terms - due to inflation - to an increase of 1.9%. | |
| The hearing will take place before two judges on 15 April. |