How have the courts dealt with the issue of passport seizure by the police?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Reference Re Judicature Act, 1983 ABCA 332 (CanLII):
In Ghani v. Jones [1969] 3 All E.R. 1700 police officers, believing that a missing woman had been murdered, attended at the residence of her father-in-law. The woman's husband had left England. The husband's sister was also residing in the house. The house was searched. The police asked the father-in-law for their passports and received his own and that of his wife. They also took some letters from other members of the family. The police returned several days later and demanded and received the daughter's passport.
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