| Summary: | This book introduces a new regime for seizing assets that have been acquired through criminal conduct. The new Act unifies the confiscation regimes for drugs and other offenses; creates an Asset Recovery Agency; seeks to target lifestyle criminals; replaces and strengthens the existing investigation procedures, providing the crown court with a series of new powers to freeze assets and obtain information and disclosure; and creates new money laundering offenses, replacing existing legislation. This new book will provide an authoritative and accessible analysis of the new Act, with particular emphasis on the practical aspects of applying for and resisting confiscation orders. It will be accompanied by the full text of the legislation as it applies to England and Wales.
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