Raya Meredith
Judge in strip search class action awards woman $93,000 after she was illegally searched by NSW police
Police admitted to unlawfully strip-searching Raya Meredith in 2018 at Splendour in the Grass and withdrew all witnesses before court hearingA woman who was illegally strip-searched by NSW police has been awarded $93,000 in a landmark class action that alleged the vast majority of strip searches conducted between 2018 and 2022 at music festivals were unlawful. Justice Dina Yehia handed down her findings in the NSW supreme court on Tuesday in a class action brought by Slater and Gordon Lawyers and the Redfern Legal Centre against the state of NSW over allegedly unlawful strip-searches conducted by police at music festivals, including strip-searches of children.