by Caroline Dutot | Jun 14, 2023 | Insights
MONEYVAL, the assessment body established by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), plays a critical role in evaluating countries’ adherence to international anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing standards. For businesses, preparing for a...
by Caroline Dutot | Jan 10, 2023 | Insights
Everything you need to know about Russian Sanctions and the Trust Prohibition. The UK first announced its intention to prevent Russia from accessing trust services in June 2022. However, 6 months passed without those measures coming to fruition. The UK Government were...
by Caroline Dutot | Apr 12, 2022 | Insights
In Crown Prosecution Service v Aquila Advisory Ltd [2021] UKSC 49, the prosecution authority sought to enforce confiscations orders made in criminal proceedings against assets that were the subject of competing proprietary claims brought by Aquilla.  The UK Supreme...
by Howard Sharp QC | Apr 3, 2021 | Insights
There is a presumption in law that legislation is not intended to have extra-territorial effect. This is reinforced by well known principles of International comity. This can causes difficulties in respect of complex regulatory and white collar criminal investigations...
by Caroline Dutot | Oct 26, 2020 | Insights
Despite a major UK government-backed review to ensure a third of every FTSE 350 company board is made up of female professionals, just under half of the index is still falling short of this benchmark.[1] Now, Business Secretary Alok Sharma has given businesses a...
by Caroline Dutot | Oct 5, 2020 | Insights
If one were to think of the characteristics typical of someone who has changed the world, the quiet intelligence embodied by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would perhaps not rank top of the list. And yet her impact, both as a litigator in the 1970’s determined...
