ABSTRACT
This chapter critically analyses the development and operation of the regime of post-conviction confiscation of assets in England and Wales. As this area of law is triggered on conviction of a predicate offence in a higher criminal court, this chapter contrasts with those contributions to this book which focus on civil forfeiture of assets (in which a conviction is unnecessary). That said, post-conviction confiscation should be viewed alongside (pre-conviction) asset forfeiture and anti-money laundering legislation as a key component of so-called ‘follow the money’ approaches to crime control, the rationale for which is to reduce crime by attacking the financial infrastructure of criminal enterprise.1
