Summary The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) – which polices anti-money laundering (AML) compliance in solicitors firms – has recently made welcome strides in taking enforcement action against money laundering breaches....
In a landmark decision handed down today, the Court of Appeal overturned a 2023 High Court decision which had seriously undermined the UK’s framework for investigating and recovering the proceeds...
This submission answers a number of specific questions presented in HM Treasury's consultation on the Money Laundering Regulations which ran from 11 March 2024 to 9 June 2024.
Spotlight on Corruption is intervening in support of a crucial appeal brought by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), supported by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN). In 2021, the WUC...
We submitted evidence to the Arbitration Bill [HL] Special Bill Committee on 6 February 2024. This further evidence is submitted on invitation from the Chair to address three additional questions as answered below.
While the Law Commission ultimately decided that the balance between confidentiality and transparency is best left to the courts to address, we believe the Arbitration Bill should introduce statutory safeguards to protect arbitration from being abused to conceal corruption or fraud.
The UK has a serious accountability gap when it comes to senior executives. Those at the helm of large firms that engage in economic crime, financial wrongdoing or regulatory breaches...
Over the summer the government consulted on whether major reform was needed to the UK’s regime for supervising money laundering. On the table were some admirably ambitious proposals, including having...
