James Berry succeeds in judicial review

James Berry has successfully defended the judicial review of a Magistrates' Court's decision to authorise police detention of seized cash under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

In The Queen (on the application of Iqbal) v Luton & South Bedfordshire Magistrates' Court, Pill LJ and Supperstone J made the important ruling that the police had a period of grace within which to re-seize cash under POCA after their power to retain cash under PACE had expired and did not need to restore the cash before re-seizing it.

James was instructed by Vanessa Blane, Principal Solicitor, Bedfordshire Police.