Police go-ahead to challenge on pay

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A judge said he had "no hesitation" in finding they had an arguable case to bring an urgent application for judicial review.

Police Federation lawyers say forces around the country had a "legitimate expectation" that they would receive the full 2.5% increase recommended by an independent arbitration tribunal.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith decided in December not to backdate the 2.5% award recommended by the pay tribunal to September 1, the beginning of the police pay year, leading to the reduced increase of only 1.9%.

More than 22,000 off-duty officers marched through Westminster last month to protest about the pay deal in the biggest gathering of police officers in Britain's history. Every force in England and Wales was represented.

The offer was backdated for officers in Scotland but not in the rest of the UK.

John Francis, general secretary of the Police Federation, welcomed Mr Justice Collins' decision.

He said: "This is an opportunity to challenge the betrayal of the Home Secretary in failing to make an award in line with the police arbitration tribunal.

"Last month, some 25,000 police officers demonstrated peacefully in central London.

"But this doesn't disguise the anger that is felt out there at the way they have been betrayed by the Home Secretary. The court is probably the last avenue left open to us."