Date set for Gilligan challenge against freezing orders

The High Court has set aside two weeks in June to hear convicted drug dealer John Gilligan's challenge against orders that his assets and those of his family were the proceeds of crime.

The action brought under Section 3.3 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 1996 is being taken by the Gilligan's on the basis that an injustice may have been caused to them when freezing orders against a number of properties were made in July 1997 by Mr Justice Michael Moriarty.