This guide provides practitioners involved with challenges to seizures under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 with detailed coverage of the relevant statutory provisions and case law and practical advice as to the procedures and issues which may arise.
The book gives an analysis of the legislative framework dealing with forfeiture, examples of the situations when goods and/or vehicles are seized and explains the distinct statutory regimes dealing with Condemnation proceedings in the Magistrates and Crown Courts and Restoration appeals in the First Tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber).