“A chief constable could face jail and an end to his 35-year police career for defying a High Court order to return computers suspected of holding a huge collection of child abuse images to a controversial expert witness.”
The Times, 27th May 2009
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“The lawyer who has put a police chief’s job on the line over a search warrant is the same man who represented Harry Redknapp in his successful claim over a dawn raid on his home.”
The Times, 27th May 2009
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“Christopher Galley dismissed as junior Home Office civil servant for passing information to Tory Damian Green.”
The Guardian, 24th April 2009
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“A Commons select committee is going to launch its own inquiry into the arrest of the Tory MP Damian Green, it said today (9 December).”
The Guardian, 9th December 2008
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“The vow by Commons Speaker Michael Martin to prevent ‘unauthorised’ raids on MPs’ offices in the wake of the Damian Green affair was seriously undermined last night as it emerged that the Government is preparing new laws to allow investigators to mount parliamentary searches without a warrant.”
The Independent, 7th December 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The House of Commons Speaker is to make a statement over the decision to allow police to search the offices of shadow immigration minister Damian Green.”
BBC News, 3rd December 2008
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“A computer, or its hard disk, fell within the meaning of ‘material’ in s 8(1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and was to be regarded as a single item or thing, rather than a container of a number of things, so that, where there were reasonable grounds for believing that it contained material evidence, a warrant under s 8 could properly specify a computer or similar item even if it were likely to contain irrelevant material.”
WLR Daily, 24th November 2008
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“Search warrants executed by Revenue & Customs at the offices of a tax consultancy were held to be unlawful by the High Court today.”
The Times, 13th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Redknapp and Another v Commissioner of the City of London Police and Another
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“Reasons for seeking the issue of an search warrant had to be set out to make it valid. For its execution to be lawful, the occupier of the premises had to be shown and given a copy of the warrant. ”
The Times, 16th June 2008
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Khan v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Court of Appeal
“Police powers to enter and search a premises without a warrant, could be used only where those premises were, in fact, occupied or controlled by a person under arrest, and not where the police had merely a reasonable belief that the suspect occupied or controlled the premises.”
The Times, 16th June 2008
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Khan v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis; [2008] WLR (D) 182
“S 18 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (as amended by s 111, Sch 7, Pt 3 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005), which gave the police the power to enter and search a premises occupied or controlled by a person under arrest without a warrant, should be construed literally so that the power could only be used where the premises were, in fact, occupied or controlled by a person who was under arrest.”
WLR Daily, 6th June 2008
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“A warrant authorising the entry and search of premises issued under s 8 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 was unlawful if the application did not identify which of the four conditions specified in s 8(3) of the Act was being relied on. Further, the execution of such a warrant was invalidated by a failure to satisfy the requirements of s 16(5) of the Act, which provided that when premises were occupied, the officer executing the warrant must not only produce the warrant to the person in occupation, but also supply him or her with a copy of it.”
WLR Daily, 4th June 2008
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“Companies get no warning about early morning raids by authorities, but they can put in place procedures to deal with them.”
The Times, 11th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“IVF doctors last night called for resignations and a full investigation by the Department of Health after the high court ruled that the fertility regulator had unlawfully obtained warrants to search a clinic on the eve of a Panorama documentary. The British Fertility Society, representing the doctors, said the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority had lost the trust of the clinics it regulates following the high court victory of Mohamed Taranissi, the controversial IVF doctor who has the best success rates in the country.”
The Guardian, 29th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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