 she noticed a strong smell of cannabis.  Judge Gittos said the circumstances left an "uncomfortable perception" that the police were "engineering opportunities to conduct personal searches of persons minding their own business in a public street at random or on a purely speculative basis.  "It needs hardly be said that such conduct would manifestly contravene the provisions of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act."  Furthermore, the judge criticised the police for using the smell of cannabis as the sole grounds for searching 