Confiscation Law Handbook

Omtale

A practical, user-friendly guide to this complex area of law, with clear analysis of legislation and proliferating case law allowing principles to be quickly identified and understood. A stage-by-stage explanation of the procedural requirements ensures that required forms and responses are completed well and within time limits.The new edition incorporates developments in case law at Supreme Court level which has had a profound impact on the calculation of benefit and the need to achieve proportionality and compliance with the Human Rights Act. There have also been cases on apportionment and double recovery. Cases covered in the second edition include:Criminal confiscation- Supreme Court case of R v Waya (2012) which has a profound impact on the calculationof benefit and the need to achieve proportionality and compliance with the HumanRights Act 1988 and Article 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention.- Supreme Court case of R v Ahmad and Field (2014), a crucial case on apportionmentand double recovery.- Court of Appeal case of Shakeel Ahmed (2012) the CA largest ever confiscation orderoverturned.Civil recovery - Perry v Serious Organised Crime Agency (2012) implications to extra territorialjurisdiction of the Part V powers.