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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jordyn Beazley

Judge suggests NSW police had ‘absolutely no evidence’ to justify main strip-search in class action

Festivalgoers watch a band
The main stage the 2018 Splendour in the Grass festival in Byron Bay. NSW police are defending a strip-search class action in Sydney. Photograph: Zak Kaczmarek/WireImage

A Sydney judge says the way the New South Wales police force defended a claim it unlawfully strip-searched a woman at a music festival – including a last-minute admission – was “of grave concern to me”.

Justice Dina Yehia made the comment in the NSW supreme court during closing arguments in a class action against the police.

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