Situations
- Reporting abuse or a sexual offence: requests for your phoneEngland & Wales · Scotland
When police ask a complainant for their phone: the written notice, no undue pressure, withdrawing agreement, and the Code’s words on return. Quoted.
- Police and the phone of someone who has diedEngland & Wales · Scotland
PCSC Act 2022 ss.40-41 and the Code: extraction from the device of a user who has died, even though no user agreed, and the conditions that still apply. Quoted.
- Journalists: police access to source material on a phoneEngland & Wales
PACE definitions of journalistic, excluded and special procedure material, the Schedule 1 order and warrant conditions, and Schedule 7 limits. Quoted.
- Employer-owned phone: who is the user, who gets it backEngland & Wales
Who counts as the user of a work phone, who may apply for its return after a seizure, and what s.49(5) says about notices where a company holds a key. Quoted.
- A pupil’s phone at school in England: search, seize, eraseEngland & Wales
What the Education Act 1996 and DfE guidance say about staff at a school in England searching a pupil’s phone, confiscating it and erasing data. Quoted.
- Carrying a work phone through a UK port: Schedule 7England & Wales · Scotland
What Schedule 7 and its Code of Practice say about access to any electronic device, confidential business material, copies and retention. Quoted.