Judges: Laws, Mitting LJJ, Edwards-Stuart J Citations: [2012] EWCA Crim 1519 Links: Bailii Statutes: Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 170(2)(b) Jurisdiction: England and Wales Crime, Customs and Excise Updated: 03 November 2022; Ref: scu.462897
Where the defendant had agreed to receive a package expected to contain drugs which were to be posted from abroad he had already committed the offence of being concerned in importation of controlled drug. Any uncertainty of future events was no bar to the offence. Citations: Times 02-Oct-1998, Gazette 30-Sep-1998 Statutes: Customs and Excise Management … Continue reading Attorney-General’s Reference (No 1 of 1998): CACD 30 Sep 1998
The case involved the importation of 100 kilos of heroin at 100% purity, with a street value of andpound;14 million, a sentence of 30 years imposed upon a high middle-ranking participant in the conspiracy following trial was reduced from 30 years to 24 years, the sentence upon a less important mid-ranker who had pleaded guilty … Continue reading Regina v Kaynak and Others: CACD 3 Feb 1998
Appeal from sentences of 12 years knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of the prohibition on the importation of a large quantity of cocaine, a class A controlled drug. Held: 10 years substituted. Citations: [2010] 1 Cr App Rep (S) 34, [2009] EWCA Crim 1097 Links: Bailii Statutes: Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 170(2)(b) … Continue reading Quinn and Others, Regina v: CACD 19 May 2009
The fact that some parrots, the breed of which was subject to import controls as endangered species, had been imported into Austria first, did not prevent a defendant in England committing the offence of being involved in their importation by eventually receiving them in England. The offence was a continuing one. Council regulations had direct … Continue reading Regina v Sissen: CACD 8 Dec 2000
It was not necessary for the Commissioners themselves to authorise by order proceedings for conspiracy to commit a non-summary customs and excise offence, namely to evade the prohibition on importation of a controlled drug. The Criminal Law Act could not be used to reinstate that requirement because just they had not been charged with the … Continue reading Regina v Keyes and Others: CACD 10 Mar 2000
Appeal against sentence for importation of very large volume of cocaine. Judges: Treacy LJ, Holgate J, Griffiths-Jones HHJ Citations: [2017] EWCA Crim 126 Links: Bailii Statutes: Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 170(2)(b) Jurisdiction: England and Wales Criminal Sentencing Updated: 09 February 2022; Ref: scu.579623
The defendant had been convicted of evading a prohibition on importing articles of an obscene or indecent nature. He had been unaware of whether the articles were indecent images of children, or otherwise obscene images. Since the provisions which made these unlawful and therefore prohibited were so different, he claimed it was necessary to have … Continue reading Regina v Forbes (Giles): HL 20 Jul 2001
