Safeguarding, Harm, Deprivation of Liberty FAQs If, in an unwanted scenario for example, in the workplace, where an employee found themselves in an unwanted situation, cornered by a clent with no escape route and has exhausted all other recommended approaches and interventions to mitigate that situation and feels that they are in imminent or immediate danger and are fearful for their life – if they then choose to use reasonable force to defend themselves, under Common Law and the right to Self Defence, does this Law protect them?
