The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 3 WLR 337
Court of Appeal
Regina
v
Simpson
[2003] EWCA Crim 1499
2003 May 12;
23
Lord Woolf CJ, Kennedy LJ, Mitchell, Hallett and Pitchers JJ
Crime
— Sentence
— Confiscation order
— Defendant convicted of criminal offences and confiscation proceedings taking place
— Alleged defects in notice served on court
— Whether court having jurisdiction to make confiscation order
—
Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c 33) (as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1993 (c 36), ss. 27–35 and Proceeds of Crime Act 1995 (c 11), ss. 1–10), ss. 71, 72
Judicial precedent
— Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) decision
— How far binding
— Defendant relying on Court of Appeal authority to appeal against confiscation order
— Court of Appeal subsequently concluding that authority wrongly decided
— Whether entitled not to follow previous authority