Defence's failure to find any incriminating material and to produce any evidence in answer to the plaintiff's testimony that he could think of no justification for searches of his premises allowed an inference to be drawn of absence of reasonable and probable cause for procuring the search warrants.

PC (CI) (Lord Hope of Craighead, Gault J, Lord Hutton, Lord Steyn, Lord Goff of Chieveley)

29/01/1998