Seizure, Detention & Forefeiture

Drugs Importation-The reality of it all!

 18th May 2018  News

Drugs Importation   It is common for officers at airports and other ports of entry to intercept people carrying controlled drugs in their luggage, clothing or inside their bodies on behalf of suppliers in foreign... Read more

A Finger on the Scales of Liberty?

 12th Feb 2018  News

Police Roll Out Portable Identity Checking   The government this week announced that West Yorkshire Police has signed up to a new identity checking service.   The new service, already being used in a select... Read more

Waste Not Want Not

 2nd Oct 2017  News

Environment Agency Clamping Down On Criminal Activity People who illegally dump waste have cost land and property owners millions of pounds in the last year, according to the Environment Agency. The financial impact, w... Read more

Conspiracy to Import Class A

 Jan 2017  Case Studies

R v S and Others [2013] Wood Green Crown Court - The defendant along with 6 others was arrested, charged and faced trial for their part in a large scale operation conducted by the Serious Crime Directorate. Following years of investigation in respect of one lead defendant and months of investigation involving the remaining ‘top tier... Read more

Conspiracy to Defraud

 Jan 2017  Case Studies

R v H [2012] Croydon Crown Court - This was the penultimate case in a string of HMRC frauds perpetrated and conducted by the primary group who had went about setting up this particular case. As a result of a breakdown in financial negotiations the secondary group attacked the self-assessment income tax return electronic system resulting i... Read more