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Federal Supreme Court - Criminal Appeal No. 1811 of 2023 on Confiscation Penalties in Narcotic Drug Cases

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Session on Tuesday, July, 16 2024, Headed by Mr Judge Mohammed Abdulrahman Al-Jarrah, ‘Head of the Department’, and with the membership of Judges Dr. Ibrahim Obaid Ali Al-Ali and Muftah Salim Saad Al-Obaidi

 

(1-2) Criminal Procedure ‘Appeal against cassation judgements: Appeal by the public prosecutor in favour of the law’. Penalties’ Subsidiary penalties: Supplementary penalties: Confiscation’. Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances ‘Penalties, measures and precautionary measures: Ancillary and supplementary penalties: Confiscation’.

 

1. The Public Prosecutor may appeal by way of cassation in favour of the law against final judgments if they are based on a violation of the law or an error in its application or interpretation. Article 256 of the Criminal Procedure Law. The violation of the contested judgment of the law and its becoming final upon the expiry of the appeal period, its effect is that the Public Prosecutor may appeal it.

 

2. Confiscation of objects or funds seized as an act of crime is a prerequisite, and the basis for this is Clause (2) of Article...