[2009] UKHL 19

Although the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.6(2) did not apply to confiscation proceedings, the presumption of innocence did. Where the judge was considering whether a convicted person had benefited from a specific drug trafficking offence with which he had not been charged, the criminal standard of proof should be applied.

HL (Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Mance, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury)

29/04/2009