The Weekly Law Reports
[2018] 1 WLR 4887
Queen’s Bench Division
*Regina (Business Energy Solutions Ltd and others) v Crown Court at Preston
[2018] EWHC 1534 (Admin)
2018 May 1;
June 19
June 19
Bean LJ, Green J
Trading standards— Search, right of— Search warrant— Trading standards authority obtaining warrants authorising search of claimants’ premises to seize material including computer equipment and data storage devices— Data from seized computer devices copied onto authority’s own systems— Whether copied data “seized property” capable in principle of being returned— Whether “reasonably practicable” to separate and return improperly seized material— Whether copied data to be returned—
Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c 16), ss 53, 59