A woman forced to remove her clothing and tampon in an unlawful strip search has been awarded $93,000 in damages for being collateral damage in the NSW Police Force's war on drugs.

Officers did not have reasonable grounds to strip-search Raya Meredith at the Splendour in the Grass festival at Byron Bay in 2018, the NSW Supreme Court found on Tuesday.

Officers' belief the search was justified because a drug detection dog sniffed towards the 27-year-old woman was "entirely wrong," Justice Dina Yehia said in her class action judgment against the State of NSW.

The legal win was notched up in the "largest class action against any police force in Australian history," said senior associate William Zerno from the law firm running the suit, Slater and Gordon.

Ms Meredith was made to remove all

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