Carter v Chief Constable of Essex Police

Subject Matter

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), s 54(4)(a)(i)

[2024] EWHC 126 (KB); [2024] 1 WLR 3848; [2024] 2 Cr App R 3; [2024] WLR(D) 62, KBD

[2025] EWCA Civ 367; [2025] 1 WLR 4663; [2025] 3 All ER 901; [2025] 2 Cr App R 10; [2025] WLR(D) 197, CA

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