The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 2 WLR 210
Court of Appeal
Customs and Excise Commissioners v A and another
A
v
A
[2002] EWCA Civ 1039
2002 June 14;
July 22
July 22
Schiemann, Judge LJJ and Wall J
Crime
— Drugs
— Confiscation order
— Defendant's wife applying for transfer of matrimonial home in ancillary relief proceedings
— Confiscation order made against defendant
— Receiver appointed over defendant's property
— Whether receiver to be directed to realise defendant's interest in house
— Whether confiscation order proceedings having precedence over ancillary relief proceedings
—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s. 24
—
Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (c 37), s. 31
Husband and wife
— Financial provision
— Transfer of property
— Wife applying for transfer of matrimonial home
— Confiscation order made against husband in criminal proceedings
— Receiver appointed over husband's property
— Whether house to be transferred to wife
— Whether confiscation order proceedings having precedence over ancillary relief proceedings
—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, ss. 24, 25 (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), s. 3)
—
Drug Trafficking Act 1994, s. 31
Practice
— Judgment
— Length of judgment
— Guidance to judges