Read the full judgment text of CACV 270/2017 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 June 2020.
1. By the judgment handed down on 2 April 2020 (“the Judgment”), we allowed the respondent’s appeal and set aside the declaration granted by Au J (as Au JA then was) (“the Judge”) in HCAL 122/2014 that a police officer can conduct a search of the digital contents of a mobile phone (or a similar device) seized on arrest without warrant as authorized under section 50(6) of the Police Force Ordinance, Cap 232 (“Section 50(6)”) only in exigent circumstances. We granted instead a declaration that a
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