Calculating jail term reduction for part-payment of confiscation order (R (on the application of Gibson) v Secretary of State for Justice)

Table of contents

• What are the practical implications of the decision?
• What was the background?
• What did the Supreme Court decide?

Article summary

Corporate Crime analysis: Matthew Stanbury, of Garden Court North, examines the Supreme Court’s decision that following a prisoner’s payment of part of a confiscation order, the additional term of imprisonment previously imposed for non-payment should be reduced by an amount which bore the same proportion to the total default term as the part-payment bore to the original confiscation sum, without the interest which had subsequently accrued.