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Confiscation Law Handbook

Confiscation Law Handbook

Author: Adrian Eissa; Ruth Barber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
ISBN: 9781847667076
Published In: September 2011
Format: Paperback , 300 pages
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"I received the Confiscation Law Handbook today. So far, I have referred to it twice. I have found the book to be accessible, clear, concise and accurate. A perfect 'go to' manual." Michaela E. Mallin, Solicitor

"If you're a practitioner preparing a case involving confiscation law, or representing your client in court, or even producing a skeleton argument or counter argument, then the Confiscation Law Handbook is just for you." Phillip Taylor MBE

"Barristers, solicitors and legal executives, not to mention investigators such as border agency personnel, and the police will find this handy and concise guide indispensible." Phillip Taylor MBE

A practical handbook suitable for the busy practitioner or practitioner new to the field dealing with all the basic aspects of confiscation law including civil remedies. This book is useful for those giving advice at trial stage on the future impact of confiscation proceedings. A clear analysis of the proliferating caselaw in the field allows principles to be quickly identified and understood and a stage by stage explanation of the procedural requirements ensures that required forms and responses are completed well and within time limits.

It provides a review of all the key confiscation provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 including Part V civil recovery provisions, the use of which is set to expand.

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‘STRIPPING WRONGDOERS OF THEIR ILL GOTTEN GAINS’: A HANDY GUIDE FOR PRACTITIONERS IN COURT

An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

If you’re a practitioner preparing a case involving confiscation law, or representing your client in court, or even producing a skeleton argument or counter argument, then the ‘Confiscation Law Handbook’ published by Bloomsbury Professional is just for you.

It’s written by practitioners for practitioners, from those involved in this area of law for the first time, to those who have been there and done that before, in this challenging arena.

‘We have written a book that we want to use’, say the authors: one a barrister, the other a solicitor advocate. In other words, they have done what many of us would like to do. In the absence of a concise and appropriate book on a particular subject, we’d like to write it ourselves.

Aiming to complement rather than supplant other available texts on this subject, the book, as the title indicates, offers a practical guide for busy practitioners, enabling them to get a quick handle, so to speak, on confiscation law and its continuing developments. With this Handbook to hand, you can quickly identify the cases – and conflicting cases -- relevant to your argument.

You can also source quotes from cases, review procedural requirements, time limits, the correct completion of forms and much, much more.

Easy to access for courtroom use, the book covers the full history and basic principles of confiscation law and reviews all its key provisions. The full text of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, including Part V – Civil Recovery provisions is included, and there’s a clear analysis of the expanding area of case law through which principles are quickly identified and understood.

Containing a useful index, plus lengthy and detailed lists of statutes, statutory instruments and cases, the book is invaluable as an essential and comprehensive guide to this continually changing and complex area of law, which, when properly conducted should, in the words of Mark Sutherland Williams in the Foreword, ‘strip wrongdoers of their ill-gotten gains and (also) ensure that monies recovered are re-invested back into central funds for the benefit of society as a whole.’

Barristers, solicitors and legal executives, not to mention investigators such as border agency personnel, and the police will find this handy and concise guide indispensible.