A Practical Guide To POCA & Unused Material: A Defence Perspective – Six Pump Court

Posted January 29th, 2014 in confiscation, criminal procedure, defence, disclosure, news, prosecutions by sally

‘It is easy to forget or overlook the fact that the Criminal Procedure & Investigations Act 1996 applies equally to confiscation proceedings as it does to the substantive criminal proceedings that have resulted in the defendant being convicted in the first place (something that prosecutors do themselves on a regular basis and only appreciate its significance when the contents of their own website are brought to their attention, see “Chapter 21: Disclosure of Unused Material Created in the Course of Financial Investigations”).’

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Six Pump Court, 29th January 2014

Source: www.6pumpcourt.co.uk