This portal provides busy practitioners with short commentaries on significant developments in the field of bribery and corruption, fraud, money laundering and proceeds of crime. The commentaries are franked by their topicality and practical insight, with an emphasis on implications not always visible at first glance.
- New law on shaky ground: the test for dishonesty in criminal lawSpeed read: The Court of Appeal affirming the Ivey test as the new standard for...Continue Reading
- Is Phoenixism about to rise from the ashes?Speed read: Phoenixism (liquidating a company only for the same business to re-emerge from the...Continue Reading
- False accounting and COVID-19Speed read: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought difficulty and trying times to all areas of...Continue Reading
- A fiery debate: incineration taxSpeed read: Taxes have been used to shape behaviour for centuries. Now, environmental taxes are...Continue Reading
- Duty to report fraud: an unnecessary duplication?Speed read: The proposal to impose a mandatory duty to report fraud on financial institutions...Continue Reading
- Protecting against tax and benefit fraud during COVID-19Speedread: COVID-19 is a tremendous challenge to the world economy. The UK government has announced...Continue Reading
- Covid-19 & consequences for anti-money launderingSpeedread: Anita Clifford considers the implications for anti-money laundering and Customer Due Diligence following the...Continue Reading
- Where do we go from here? Cryptoassets and external application of POCA 2002Speedread: This briefing considers the international perspective on cryptoassets and external application of Proceeds of...Continue Reading
- The vulnerability of management consultants to an offence of money launderingSpeedread: Recent events suggest that management consultants are vulnerable to interacting with criminal property, thereby...Continue Reading
- Cryptoassets’ relationship with the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002Speedread: The recent High Court decision in AA v Persons Unknown [2019] EWHC 3556 (Comm)...Continue Reading
- A Spring Clean for the Waste Industry?Speedread: On 16 January 2020, the government launched a taskforce to bring environmental regulators, HMRC...Continue Reading
- The impact of an acquittal on civil recovery proceedingsSpeed read: Considering recent developments in civil recovery cases, an important question arises as to...Continue Reading
- Bankers and the importance of ongoing monitoringSpeed read: Jonathan Fisher QC analyses the interrelationship between the civil and criminal liability of...Continue Reading
- Law commission suspicionSpeed read: Jonathan Fisher QC discusses the history, problems and possible reforms for the law...Continue Reading
- Law commission fungibilitySpeed read: In this article, Jonathan Fisher QC explores whether the notion of fungibility has...Continue Reading
- A new landscape: 5AMLD and the art marketSpeed read: 5AMLD brings 'art market participants' within the regulated sector, requiring them to comply...Continue Reading
- Rolling out the red carpet: RegTech and its relationship with the 5th Money Laundering DirectiveSpeed read: 2020 has barely started, and it is already proving to be the year...Continue Reading
- The revamped Money Laundering Regulations 2017 in 2020: five key changesSpeed read: Amendments to the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, introduced by the Money Laundering Regulations...Continue Reading
- Anti-money laundering regime requires urgent reformSpeed read: Jonathan Fisher QC analyses the suspicious reporting regime and the inundation of the...Continue Reading
- Tax whistleblowersSpeed read: Rachel Clark analyses the whistleblowing regime in the context of tax whistleblowers, considering...Continue Reading
