On 2 October 2025 our client was driving home after finishing a video shoot relating to his very successful fashion business.

He was pulled over by the police, who then searched him and the vehicle and seized about $8,500 in cash and his mobile phone. He was not charged with any offence.

Our client instructed us to make an urgent application to the Supreme Court to order the police to return his phone and the cash and to stop the police from downloading his phone using Cellebrite technology.

On 3 October 2025, we obtained an interim injunction stopping the police from downloading the mobile phone, and the Court then heard the arguments about returning the phone and the cash. We argued that the seizure was unlawful and that, as a result, the police should not be permitted to examine the phone. The police argued that the seizure was lawful and that, even if it wasn’t, they should be allowed to examine the phone anyway to see if there is any evidence of crimes on it.

On 22 October 2025, the Supreme Court held in our client’s favour, finding that the police seizure of the phone and cash was unlawful, and ordering the police to return the items to our client immediately. The Court also ordered that the police pay our client’s legal costs.

For more information, see: AA v Constable Michael Moore [2025] NSWSC 1241