High Court rejects claim NT police ‘trespassed’ when breathalysing Aboriginal woman in domestic violence check

The High Court has rejected a claim police were “trespassing” when they breathalysed and arrested a Northern Territory woman for being drunk in her own home in breach of a domestic violence order.

In a split three-to-two decision, the court found officers had the ordinary implied right to knock on the woman’s flyscreen door and the power to then order a breath test, which they did as part of a “proactive policing” operation on domestic…