In re M (Restraint order: Reasonable living expenses): CACD 22 May 2009

The court had allowed as exception to a criminal restraining order his reasonable living expenses. He sought an order allowing him to pay his legal aid contribution from those expenses.
Held: The section allowed reasonable living expenses as an exemption, but did not allow payments of contributions as a condition of his grant of public funding for legal representation in proceedings for judicial review of the decision to prosecute him for the offences in respect of which the restraint order was imposed.

Judges:

Lord Justice Hooper, Mr Justice David Clarke and Judge Roberts, QC

Citations:

Times 16-Jun-2009

Statutes:

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 41

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Criminal Practice

Updated: 16 August 2022; Ref: scu.374723