‘The London Borough of Islington has lost “a most unusual” Court of Appeal action in which it argued that a confiscation order in a housing overcrowding case was too lenient.’
Local Government Lawyer, 27th August 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has rejected a case in which two men argued that a Crown Court judge miscalculated confiscation orders made following a prosecution by the Environment Agency.’
Local Government Lawyer, 27th August 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A defendant who turned a house into 12 flats without planning permission has lost an appeal over the subsequent imposition of a confiscation order for more than £500,000.’
Local Government Lawyer, 27th July 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In this post, James Warshaw, an associate in the Dispute Resolution team at CMS, previews the decision which is expected to be handed down tomorrow, 1 July 2020, in the matter of R v Hilton (Northern Ireland).’
UKSC Blog, 30th June 2020
Source: ukscblog.com
‘Two joint property owners have been found guilty of illegally sub-dividing a building into seven substandard flats in a prosecution brought by the London Borough of Camden.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th June 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A landlord has failed in a judicial review challenge after he was refused permission to vacate a guilty plea in relation to an enforcement notice, amid claims that a council was improperly motivated by an expected windfall from a confiscation order.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th June 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Joint action by Hillingdon Council’s planning enforcement and trading standards teams has seen a Hayes landlord ordered to pay more than £430,000 after she turned her property into an illegal House in Multiple Occupation (HMO).’
Local Government Lawyer, 2nd December 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A defendant convicted of defrauding the electrical waste recycling industry has been sentenced to prison for a further eight years after he failed to meet a £1.3m confiscation order.’
Local Government Lawyer, 29th August 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A judge has ordered the confiscation of bitcoin worth more than £900,000 from a jailed hacker in the first case of its kind for the Metropolitan police.’
The Guardian, 23rd August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A mother attempting to bring medical cannabis into the country for her severely epileptic daughter said she was “exhausted and shattered” after a second batch was seized by authorities.’
The Independent, 7th June 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A West London solicitor has hit with a £500,000 confiscation order for repeatedly disregarding warnings from his local council to stop using a home as an office for his firm.’
Legal Futures, 3rd June 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Environment Agency has secured a £200,000 confiscation order against a waste operator over environmental offences at sites he operated with his brother in Swindon.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th March 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Autonomy founder Mike Lynch will on Monday begin his high court defence against accusations that he perpetrated a $5bn (£3.8bn) fraud, as US prosecutors unveiled fresh criminal charges accusing the British businessman of a cover-up.’
The Guardian, 24th March 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A council and the police acted unlawfully when they used a Victorian law against a shepherd whose sheep had entered a village.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘MPs have called on the government to confiscate properties from the country’s worst landlords after a series of revelations about tenants being exploited by rogue sections of the private rented housing sector.’
The Guardian, 29th November 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Ealing Council has obtained a confiscation order of nearly £450,000 against a landlord who ignored enforcement notices over ‘beds in sheds’ at one of her rental properties.’
Local Government Lawyer, 26th November 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The owner of an unauthorised scrap yard in South Staffordshire was last month fined £24,000 and ordered to pay court costs of £28,280 at Birmingham Crown Court.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th November 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Confiscation laws will be reviewed to ensure they’re effectively depriving convicted offenders of their ill-gotten gains, the Law Commission has announced today.’
Law Commission, 7th November 2018
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
‘A woman who hid $3.5 million in corrupt payments by letting it pass through her foreign bank accounts has been given a suspended prison sentence today (25 September).’
Crown Prosecution Service, 25th September 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A cage fighter convicted of taking part in a £53m armed robbery has been excused from paying back his alleged share of the stolen cash after a secret court hearing.’
The Guardian, 29th August 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
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