Confiscation

Chambers enjoys an unrivalled reputation for its expertise in this important area.

Our barristers have a vast amount of experience both prosecuting and defending such proceedings, for example:

• R v Sykes – The cheney pension 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 quashed 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