In this week’s NLJ Crime Brief, David Walbank KC focuses on the issue of criminal restraint orders where there are parallel civil proceedings, recently covered by the Supreme Court in a case concerning allegations of fraud against a former professional footballer and cricketer.
It’s a ‘not-uncommon situation’, he writes, ‘where an alleged fraudster faces linked criminal and civil proceedings based on essentially the same allegations’. Walbank covers the reasoning and conclusions of the Supreme Court, noting that practitioners will be ‘mightily relieved’ the Supreme Court ‘has so decisively grasped the nettle’ on the issue.
RELATED ARTICLES
