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It arose out of the NCA’s decision not to investigate the possibility of forced labour or other human rights abuses occurring in the supply chains for consignments of cotton goods imported into the UK.</p> </cmb-cms-paragraph></cmb-cms-block-mapper><cmb-cms-block-mapper _nghost-serverapp-c258144550><cmb-cms-paragraph _ngcontent-serverapp-c258144550> <p>The judicial review centred around statements in a letter concerning the circumstances in which an investigation into alleged POCA offences would be merited and, in particular, whether the NCA was correct to claim that s329(2)(c) of POCA applied as a defence aimed at protecting a bona fide purchaser for value and effectively ‘cleansed’ criminal property. The first instance judge dismissed the claim for judicial review; the World Uyghur Congress appealed this decision to the Court of Appeal.</p> </cmb-cms-paragraph></cmb-cms-block-mapper><cmb-cms-block-mapper _nghost-serverapp-c258144550><cmb-cms-heading _ngcontent-serverapp-c258144550><h2>What did the court decide? </h2></cmb-cms-heading></cmb-cms-block-mapper><cmb-cms-block-mapper _nghost-serverapp-c258144550><cmb-cms-paragraph _ngcontent-serverapp-c258144550> <p>In a unanimous judgment, the Court of Appeal outlined that the designation ‘criminal property’ for the purposes of POCA depends on the mental state of the accused party by operation of s340(3)(b). As such, s329(2)(c) – which exempts liability for certain parties who provide consideration for criminal property – cannot apply to a bona fide purchaser for value. Furthermore, the NCA was incorrect in stating that specific criminal conduct and criminal property must be identified for an investigation to be merited.</p> </cmb-cms-paragraph></cmb-cms-block-mapper><cmb-cms-block-mapper _nghost-serverapp-c258144550><cmb-cms-paragraph _ngcontent-serverapp-c258144550> <p>Accordingly, the appeal was allowed and the decision on whether to investigate possible offences or consider civil recovery actions under POCA remitted to the NCA.</p> </cmb-cms-paragraph></cmb-cms-block-mapper><cmb-cms-block-mapper _nghost-serverapp-c258144550><cmb-cms-paragraph _ngcontent-serverapp-c258144550> <p>The court also stated that importers or purchasers who suspect there are human rights abuses in the supply chain of the goods they purchase are not bona fide and therefore cannot rely on s308 in any action for civil recovery against them.</p> </cmb-cms-paragraph></cmb-cms-block-mapper><cmb-cms-block-mapper _nghost-serverapp-c258144550><cmb-cms-heading 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It arose out of the NCA’s decision not to investigate the possibility of forced labour or other human rights abuses occurring in the supply chains for consignments of cotton goods imported into the UK.\u003C/p>\n","innerContent":["\n\u003Cp>The World Uyghur Congress brought a claim for judicial review against, among others, the National Crime Agency (“NCA”). It arose out of the NCA’s decision not to investigate the possibility of forced labour or other human rights abuses occurring in the supply chains for consignments of cotton goods imported into the UK.\u003C/p>\n"]},{"blockName":"core/paragraph","attrs":[],"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n\u003Cp>The judicial review centred around statements in a letter concerning the circumstances in which an investigation into alleged POCA offences would be merited and, in particular, whether the NCA was correct to claim that s329(2)(c) of POCA applied as a defence aimed at protecting a bona fide purchaser for value and effectively ‘cleansed’ criminal property. 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