R (Price) v Snaresbrook Crown Court (Crown Prosecution Service, Interested Party)

Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court) [2020] EWHC 496 (Admin), Before Mr Justice Freedman, 20, 26 November, 3 December 2019, 6 March 2020

Confiscation order - Appeal - Breach of peremptory order - Application to set aside bound to fail - Drug Trafficking Act 1994 - Criminal Justice and Data Protection (Protocol No 36) Regulations 2014 (SI 2014 No 3141), regulation 11.

This is an application in judicial review proceedings to reinstate a claim following judgment entered for breach of a peremptory order. The claimant is in HM Prison Wakefield and is currently serving a 10-year default term for non-payment of a confiscation order, following a 25-year prison sentence for drugs offences/fraudulent evasion on prohibition on importation. In these proceedings, the claimant seeks permission to challenge decisions of HH Judge Zeidman QC, the Honorary Recorder of Redbridge ( "the judge") in the Crown Court at Snaresbrook.