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not found “on” the apprehended person or “in or about the
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place at which he has been apprehended”. It therefore does
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not fall within the scope of section 50(6).
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I will consider these grounds in turn.
First, the
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Constitutional Ground.
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The Constitutional Ground
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The applicant’s principal arguments made in support of the
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Constitutional Ground run as follows:
(1)
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A mobile phone nowadays contains massive and extensive
personal
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information
of
its
owner,
which
information and data of private nature.
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includes
Such private
information is subject to constitutional protection under
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BOR14 and BL30 against any unlawful or unauthorised
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(2)
interference or invasion.
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When considered in the above context of constitutional
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protection of privacy, on a proper construction, section 50(6)
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of the PFO cannot be intended objectively to permit police
officer a search of the digital content of the mobile phone
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seized under arrest without first having obtained specific and
prior authorization by a neutral and impartial person acting
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judicially (ie, a warrant) when it is feasible or practicable to
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obtain such authorization.
(3)
Thus, the police did not have any power to search without
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warrant the digital contents of the Subject Mobile Phones
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and the Decision was therefore unlawful.
make a declaration to that effect.
The court should
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