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..... consideration. but those interests must be assessed in the context of this country's treaty obligations in the suppression of trade in narcotic drugs across international borders (un convention against illicit trading in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances 1988). there are good reasons too for looking to the place of the mischief as the place where the prosecution should ..... it was pointed out that a large number of witnesses would have to attend from the united states if the complete scale of the appellants' involvement in drug making activities there was to be placed before the court, whereas the number of witnesses who would need to travel for a trial in that country would ..... the appellants' activities was given by the crown prosecution service in 2006 following their move to scotland earlier that year. section 20 of the misuse of drugs act 1971 provides that a person commits an offence if in the united kingdom he assists in or induces the commission in any place outside the united .....
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..... rise to surrender pursuant to a european arrest warrant: - participation in a criminal organisation, - terrorism, - trafficking in human beings, - sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, - illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, - illicit trafficking in weapons, munitions and explosives, - corruption, - fraud, including that affecting the financial interests of the european communities within the meaning of the convention of 26 july 1995 .....
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..... has explained, poca is intended to fulfil certain international obligations of the united kingdom. these include, in particular, the obligations arising under the united nations convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (vienna, 20 december 1988), the convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds of crime (strasbourg, 8 november 1990), and the council framework decision of 26 ..... light of those instruments. for present purposes, the most significant of them are the vienna convention and the strasbourg convention. the vienna convention 103. the vienna convention is concerned with drugs offences. article 5 relates to confiscation, defined by article 1 as meaning the permanent deprivation of property by order of a court or other competent authority. article 5(1) requires .....
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..... and the council of europe, to take measures necessary to ensure that the profits of those engaged in drug trafficking or other crimes are confiscated: see the united nations convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (19 december 1988); council of europe convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds ..... parliament's intention to expropriate them has been expressed in clear and unambiguous terms. the principle is in no doubt. but the statutory purpose of the drug trafficking act 1994 ("the 1994 act"), and similar statutes, could hardly have been made clearer. as lord steyn observed in relation to part vi ..... put beyond doubt by subsections 7 and 9. but presumably that is because section 15 is directed essentially to revising the assessment of the proceeds of drug trafficking and, but for these subsections, would not appear to involve any recalculation of realisable assets. sections 16 and 17 by contrast are directly concerned .....
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..... narcotics drugs and the maintenance of records on such drugs are to be made by the attorney general ). post enactment congressional commentary on the csa s regulation of medical practice is also at odds with the attorney general s claimed authority to determine appropriate medical standards. in 1978, in preparation for ratification of the convention on psychotropic ..... 21 u. s. c. 823(g) (2000 ed. and supp. ii) (stating that the attorney general shall register practitioners who dispense drugs for narcotics treatment when the secretary has determined the applicant is qualified to treat addicts and the attorney general has concluded the applicant will comply with record keeping ..... attorney general for possible scheduling. shedding light on congress understanding of drug abuse, this requirement appears under the heading abuse potential. 21 u. s. c. 811(f). similarly, when congress prepared to implement the convention on psychotropic substances, it did so through the csa. 801a. the interpretive .....
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