The Weekly Law Reports
[2009] 2 WLR 471
Court of Appeal
Gibson
v
Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office
[2008] EWCA Civ 645
2008 April 10;
June 12
June 12
May, Arden, Wall LJJ
Crime— Sentence— Confiscation order— Confiscation order made against defendant following conviction for drug trafficking offence— Defendant’s wife asserting half interest in matrimonial home and endowment policies held in joint names— Judge finding wife becoming aware after acquisition that proceeds of crime being used to pay mortgage and make policy payments— Whether statutory jurisdiction to confiscate wife’s interest as gift from defendant— Whether public policy conferring jurisdiction to reduce extent of wife’s interest to reflect her guilty knowledge—
Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (c 37), s 8