Originally Posted by
T250
And on this topic, always intrigued me whether in fact, baggage reclaim is actually 'airside'. As pax have checked in baggage landside at check in, but they are now receiving it back airside... At least at all UK airports, baggage reclaim is very much airside as there is no public access. Yet pax could retrieve prohibited items from their checked bags...

At UK airports to go from the baggage hall back into the terminal would require you to get pass the immigration desks. Perhaps on domestic flights but I don't think it is that easy.
You 'can' do it in Geneva, but you have a security checkpoint to get through.