Confiscation
Our confiscation barristers have a huge amount of experience both prosecuting and defending in confiscation proceedings.
Chambers enjoys an unrivalled reputation for its expertise in this important area.
Cases include:
- R v Sykes – The Cheney pension fund fraud.
- R v Briggs – Price (in the Crown Court, Court of Appeal and the House of Lords).
- Operation Stockade – Multi-million pound confiscation order quashed when conviction overturned in the Court of Appeal.
Members have lectured and written widely in this area. Our experience includes expertise in the following areas:
- Criminal lifestyle
- Determining criminal benefit
- Assessment of recoverable amounts
- Enforcement proceedings
- Management receivership proceedings
- Enforcement receivership proceedings
- The determination of competing claims to property pursuant to the making of a confiscation order
- Identifying issues of double accounting
- Access to specialist forensic accountants when defending confiscation proceedings
Get in touch
For further information and enquiries please contact our clerks team.
Call: +44 (0)20 7440 8888
Email: clerks@2br.co.uk
Clerk: Lee Bartlett
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7440 8888
Email: Click here
Latest Confiscation news and publications
Hugo Lodge and Katherine Higgs secure nominal £1 confiscation order in 19 kilo Class A drug importation
Hugo Lodge and Katherine Higgs, instructed by Greg Powell of Powell Spencer & Partners, represented the...
Olivia Rawlings secures drugs acquittal at the Central Criminal Court
Olivia Rawlings represented a defendant charged with possession with intent to supply a Class B drug. Police...
Hugo Lodge successfully challenges confiscation order in £60 Million money laundering case at the Old Bailey
Hugo Lodge, instructed by Jag Brar at Richmond and Barnes solicitors, successfully challenged an order made in 2021,...
