The Weekly Law Reports
[2005] 1 WLR 3083
Court of Appeal
Bowman v Fels (Bar Council and others intervening)
[2005] EWCA Civ 226
2004 Nov 29,
30;
2005 March 8
2005 March 8
Brooke, Mance and Dyson LJJ
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
— Appeal
— Academic point of law
— Point of public importance
— Parties settling private law litigation before appeal hearing
— Whether appeal hypothetical
— Whether appeal to be entertained
Practice
— Proceeds of criminal conduct
— Disclosure
— Claimant's solicitors suspecting defendant of wrongly including costs as business expenses in accounts disclosed in litigation
— Whether statutory provisions as to proceeds of crime and disclosure and consent in relation thereto applying to ordinary conduct of litigation by legal professionals
—
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c 29), ss. 328, 338
—
Council Directive 91/308/EEC (as amended by Council Directive 2001/97/EC), arts 6, 7