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Home Office v Mary and Alan Wainwright | 
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| Issue:  | 
Whether strip searches of prison visitors were lawful; the impact of s3(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998 in relation to events occurring before its commencement. | 
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| Court:  | 
Court of Appeal | 
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| Reference:    | 
B3/2001/1008 | 
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| Neutral Citation:    | 
[2001] EWCA 2081 | 
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| Judge(s):  | 
Woolf LCJ, Mummery and Buxton LJJ | 
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| Date:  | 
20 December 2001 |