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Search warrants

  • 02-11-2009 10:05pm
    #1
    Victor
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    Inspired by the thread on dwellings, are search warrants needed for areas that aren't buildings, e.g. (a) a field on a farm (b) the common areas of an apartment development - internal and external (c) the front garden of a house in a housing estate?


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  • #2
    Trojan911
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    Victor wrote: »
    Inspired by the thread on dwellings, are search warrants needed for areas that aren't buildings, e.g. (a) a field on a farm (b) the common areas of an apartment development - internal and external (c) the front garden of a house in a housing estate?

    Open to correction on this one, however, I believe they have to specific i.e. if it's just the address then it has to be the address unless specified shed, outhouse, garden, Room/Flat No: etc.

    When I first moved to London I shared a house with two other couples. Police entered the house one evening with a search warrant as two of the fellas had been lifted for armed robbery (and were also AWOL), but they didn't search my room as it was classed as a seperate address within the premises i.e. I was Room 1 of the address and they were Rooms 2 & 3. So all communal areas and Room 2 & 3 were searched.

    Needles to say I had moved within twenty four hours of the incident.


  • #3
    Our man in Havana
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    Generally search warrants will specify sheds and outbuildings.


  • #4
    Hooch
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    Bond-007 wrote: »
    Generally search warrants will specify sheds and outbuildings.

    +1
    All warrants include the curtailage of the buildings including out houses etc and would specify this after the listing of the address/townland


  • #5
    chem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭chem


    Here is one I have often wondered on. Can a warrant be issued for an alleged offence/crime? Just I often see it reported in the press, that some cases are only "alleged". Is that to protect the media from court action? Or is it that no proof, has been found, of a crime commited?


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