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High Court dismisses appeal against forfeiture order of the Circuit Court concerning a large sum of cash, finding that: (a) the appellant was not now entitled to bring a point about absence of jurisdiction of the District Court to authorise the continued retention of the cash; and (b) the only inference the High Court could draw as a matter of probability was that the money was the proceeds of crime or for use in criminal activity where there was no evidence to support any other possible explanation.
Appeal from order of the Circuit Court - respondent had obtained order under s. 39 (1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1994 that €26,000 cash seized from the appellant be forfeited as representing the proceeds of crime or as intended by a person for use in connection with criminal conduct - whether High Court required to consider whether the District Court had had jurisdiction to make number of consecutive orders following its initial order authorising detention of the cash, ending with the order in force when application made to Circuit Court - whether, on the material before the High Court, on the balance of probabilities the cash directly or indirectly represented the proceeds of crime or was intended for use in connection with criminal conduct.
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