article_snippet.sent: A woman whose designer crocodile-skin handbag was seized by the UK Border Force has triumphed in a test case bid to get A woman whose designer crocodile-skin handbag was seized by the UK Border Force back.
article_snippet.sent: But, when it arrived in Britain in 2013, customs officers confiscated it because African Nile crocodiles are a protected species and it didn't have the right documentation.
article_snippet.sent: the UK Border Force has repeatedly refused to return the UK Border Force to the UK Border Force, because the UK Border Force the UK Border Force did not have the required endangered species import permit.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Anne Redston said the crocodile was farmed and Mrs Smouha - who had relied on the reputable Japanese manufacturer to get the formalities right.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Anne Redston ordered UK Border Force to reconsider UK Border Force ruling on a designer handbag made from Nile crocodile, right, that UK Border Force confiscated on the grounds that it was not imported with the right documentation .
article_snippet.sent: The bag was made from the skin of a Nile crocodile, a protected species under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
article_snippet.sent: It applies to anything from that species, such as skin, fur and teeth .
article_snippet.sent: The crocodile skin, which had been farmed 'in a controlled environment' in Zambia, was legally imported into Japan before being re-exported.
highlights_snippet.sent: The bag was made in Japan from African Nile crocodile - an endangered species .
  