The Independent - London, February 22nd, 1995
A confiscation order imposed pursuant to the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 was in breach of the defendant's rights under article 7.1 of the European Convention on Human Rights because it retrospectively imposed a heavier penalty that applying at the time the offence was committed. The European Court of Human Rights unanimously held there had been a violation of the rights of Peter Welch under Article 7, in that he had been subjected to a confiscation order imposed on 24 August 1988, following his conviction for offences committed between 1 January and 3 November 1986, whereas the operativ...
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