“…mises, then of course they would have to be kept. But as Hoffmann LJ pointed out in Walton v Walton [1994] CA Transcript No 479 (referred to in Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 19, [2009] 1 WLR 776):…”
“… the appellants had been guilty of criminal conduct in the form of drug trafficking and money laundering”. It was also an argument advanced in R v Briggs-Price [2009] UKHL 19, [2009] AC 1026 which concerned confiscation proceedings under the Drug Trafficking Act 1994. Expressing the view of the majority, Lord Phillips said (at [54])…”