The WLR Daily case summaries
[2018] WLR (D) 381
Queen’s Bench Division
Regina (Business Energy Solutions Ltd and others) v Crown Court at Preston
[2018] EWHC 1534 (Admin)
2018 May 3; June 19
Bean LJ, Green J
Police— 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 by authority onto its 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