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Geerings v The Netherlands: ECHR 1 Mar 2007

Where a defendant is acquitted of offences of which he was charged, it was not legitimate then to infer that he had benefitted from those offences for confiscation proceedings.

Citations:

30810/03, [2007] ECHR 191, (2007) 46 EHRR 1222

Links:

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Statutes:

European Convention on Human Rights

Jurisdiction:

Human Rights

Cited by:

CitedBriggs-Price, Regina v HL 29-Apr-2009
The applicant appealed against a confiscation order made on the basis of evidence obtained for and given in a trial that he had profited from the importation of cannabis. He had not faced trial on an associated charge, but had been convicted of . .
See AlsoGeerings v The Netherlands ECHR 14-Feb-2008
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CitedGale and Another v Serious Organised Crime Agency SC 26-Oct-2011
Civil recovery orders had been made against the applicant. He had been accused and acquitted of drug trafficking allegations in Europe, but the judge had been persuaded that he had no proper explanation for the accumulation of his wealth, and had . .
CitedGale and Another v Serious Organised Crime Agency SC 26-Oct-2011
Civil recovery orders had been made against the applicant. He had been accused and acquitted of drug trafficking allegations in Europe, but the judge had been persuaded that he had no proper explanation for the accumulation of his wealth, and had . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Human Rights, Criminal Sentencing

Updated: 14 August 2022; Ref: scu.249329

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