Paragraph B1.3 Code of Practice under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 should be regarded as applying generally to the search of premises. An occupier was not deprived of the protection of the code merely because, at the time, he was viewed as a victim rather than a suspect.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ, Steel J, Butterfield J)

16/10/2000