[2009] UKHL 17

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005 gave the Crown Court no jurisdiction to make a restraint order over property outside England and Wales pursuant to a request by an overseas authority. The natural meaning of the provisions of the Order was that a restraint order must be restricted to property within England and Wales, and there was no reason not to give the Order its natural meaning.

HL (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Scott of Foscote, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance)

18/03/2009