White v. Director of Public Prosecutions for the State of Western Australia
Case No.
P44/2010
Case Information
Lower Court Judgment
12/03/2010 Supreme Court of Western Australia (Court of Appeal)(McClure J, Owen, J Buss J)
Catchwords
Criminal law — Procedure — Confiscation of proceeds of crime and related matters — Restraining or freezing order — Where applicants did not own and have effective control of property where offences committed — Where freezing orders made over applicants’ property in place of property where offences took place: Criminal Property Confiscation Act 2000 (WA) (“the Act”) s 22 — Whether property where offences took place was “crime-used” property as defined by s 146 of the Act — Scope of court’s power to set aside a freezing order under s 82 of the Act — Criminal Property Confiscation Act 2000 (WA) s 22.
Words and phrases — “crime-used”, “criminal use”.
Documents
21/10/2010 Hearing (SLA, Perth)
10/11/2010 Notice of appeal
01/02/2011 Written submissions (Appellant)
01/02/2011 Chronology
15/02/2011 Written submissions (Respondent)
22/02/2011 Reply
04/03/2011 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra)
08/06/2011 Judgment (Judgment summary)