The authorities have extensive powers when it comes to restraint orders, cash forfeiture and account freezing. The right specialist advice can ensure you retain what is yours.
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In 2018, a modestly-sized company became the first to be convicted in the UK for failure to prevent bribery. But the case itself raises more questions than it answers – and provides plenty of cause for concern for those who want to tackle b...
By Azizur Rahman
29 March 2018
4 min read
Aziz Rahman considers the Novartis scandal and the business restrictions on those holding high office.
By Azizur Rahman
15 March 2018
4 min read
The authorities have often found it difficult to seize and forfeit assets that they suspect to be the proceeds of crime.
A good number of years ago, Rahman Ravelli was asked to write about carbon credits for an environmental magazine. It was a piece about how carbon credits were a well-intentioned idea that had become a vehicle for fraud. Unfortunately, the s...
By Azizur Rahman
27 February 2017
3 min read
Fraud is estimated to cost the UK economy £193 billion a year. And yet this is not reflected in the volume of fraud prosecutions that reach the UK’s criminal courts.
By Azizur Rahman
22 December 2016
3 min read
The Serious Fraud Office’s guidance regarding interviews conducted under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 means that lawyers’ attendance at SFO-compelled interviews will not be guaranteed. Lawyers will have to argue why they shoul...
31 August 2016
3 min read
When a breach of the rules leads to evidence being excluded.Those charged with serious offences will have a considerable amount of time to ponder the evidence against them and conclude that some aspect of the evidence has been obtained ille...
By Azizur Rahman
2 April 2015
6 min read
Proceeds Of Crime Act 2002The purpose of a Restraint Order made under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) is to freeze property that may subsequently be confiscated. Confiscation is the power the Crown Court has to make orders depriving c...
By Azizur Rahman
1 May 2014
7 min read
Any article about Defence Case Statements (DCS’s) must necessarily involve a consideration of disclosure in criminal litigation. All of the guidance documents, and all of the important case-law on the topic of disclosure refer to one leadi...
By Azizur Rahman
23 December 2013
7 min read
20 February 2013
7 min read
