Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2008] All ER (D) 183 (May)
Neutral Citation: [2008] UKHL 30
Court: House of Lords
Judge:

Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Carswell and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood

Representation Tim Owen QC and Andrew Bodnar (instructed by the Stokoe Partnership) for the defendant.
  David Perry QC and Duncan Penny (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the prosecution.
Judgment Dates: 14 May 2008

Catchwords

Sentence - Confiscation order - Drug trafficking - Whether for purposes of calculating proceeds of drug trafficking each defendant to be regarded as having received whole of money or property received by one defendant on behalf of defendants jointly - .

The Case

Where any payment or other reward in connection with drug trafficking was received jointly by two or more persons acting as principals to a drug trafficking offence, the value of each person's proceeds of drug trafficking included the whole of the value of such payment or reward.

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