The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 197
Court of Appeal
Carter v Chief Constable of Essex Police
[2025] EWCA Civ 367
2025 March 26; April 9
Lady Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill CJ, Dame Victoria Sharp P, Edis LJ
Police— Powers— Persons in custody— Custody officer’s power to seize detained person’s clothes where believing clothing might be used to cause physical injury to self or others— Whether such belief required to be reasonable—
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
(c 60)
, ss 54(4)(a), 117