The Weekly Law Reports
[2017] 1 WLR 3567
Queen’s Bench Division
*Regina (A and another) v Central Criminal Court and another
Regina (C and others) v Central Criminal Court and another
[2017] EWHC 70 (Admin)
2016 Oct 18,
19;
2017 Jan 26
Gross LJ, Ouseley J
Police— Search, right of— Search warrant— Police obtaining search warrants authorising search of claimants’ premises to seize and retain “special procedure material” consisting of mobile phones and SIM cards— Whether search warrants unlawful for lack of reasonable grounds for believing that legally privileged or excluded material would not be found in property to be seized— Proper application of search warrant legislation to mobile phones—
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c 60) (as amended by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c 5), s 113(3)(a)(b)), ss 9(1), 14(2), 15(6)(b), 16(5)(b), Sch 1, para 12
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Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c 16), s 50