The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[2002] QB 1334
Court of Appeal
Wainwright
v
Home Office
[2001] EWCA Civ 2081
2001 Nov 20,
21;
Dec 20
Dec 20
Lord Woolf CJ, Mummery and Buxton LJJ
Tort
— Cause of action
— Intentional infliction of harm
— Visitors to prison strip-searched for drugs
— Distress and humiliation inflicted but no bodily harm caused
— Whether infringement of right to respect for private life
— Whether cause of action
Statute
— Retroactive effect
— Conduct occurring before statute in force
— Whether statutory provision on which claim founded having retrospective effect
—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s. 3(1)
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