In the next chapter of our legal guide series, BCL partner John Binns explores the options available for enforcement investigators tackling cases of money laundering.

A set of new sanctions targets might not set the world alight for now, but John Binns, partner in the Financial Crime team at BCL Solicitors, considers what may be around the corner...

The UK Government has revised Regulation 54D of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, refining restrictions on legal advisory services to non-UK persons. Key changes include narrowed offense criteria, expanded service exceptions, and clarified "legal services" definitions, enhancing guidance flexibility for sanctions compliance.

The draft Online Safety Bill has finally been published, delivering on the government's manifesto commitment to make the UK ‘the safest place in the world to be online'.

The new powers to detain and isolate ‘potentially infectious' people are alarming enough when applied to adults – but how do they apply to children?

Although asset freezes under POCA and financial sanctions laws (latterly SAMLA) have been around for some time, the expansion of scope this year of the RSRs has vastly increased the potential...

A key task for prosecutors handling vast quantities of digital data is working out how to determine efficiently whether any given document meets the test for disclosure.

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR') and the related Data Protection Act 2018 (‘DPA 2018') came into force, the world of technology has unsurprisingly continued its onward march.

Belarus' recent actions demonstrate how not to seek an arrest, as well as how to invite international sanctions, as John Binns and Suzanne Gallagher explain.

UK-based CBD companies may feel they have had a rough ride recently as the FSA introduces the new novel food application process, which requires non-medicinal CBD products...

BCL Solicitors is pleased to announce our new Charities of the Year for 2021 are Children Heard and Seen, supporting children, young people and their families who are impacted by parental imprisonment...

Umar Azmeh analyses the whole life order imposed upon Wayne Couzens by Lord Justice Fulford for the murder of Sarah Everard.

Updated guidelines, coming into force on 1 April 2025, have been published by the Sentencing Council.

In the following article BCL's partner Shaul Brazil examines the application in the United Kingdom of the ‘forum bar' to extradition which was introduced following widespread criticism of the perceived imbalance in the extradition arrangements between the United Kingdom and the United States and the so-called ‘long arm' jurisdiction of United States criminal law.

In February 2014, Deferred Prosecution Agreements ("DPAs") were introduced in England & Wales under section 45 and Schedule 17 to the Crime and Courts Act 2013.

Do failings by individuals place organisations in breach of their health and safety duties? If so, to what extent are organisations punished for the failings of individuals?...

Recently the BBC reported that despite the ‘legalisation of medicinal cannabis' in November 2018, ‘virtually no-one' in the UK had been able to access it since changes in the law over three months ago.

Turkey has failed in a final attempt to extradite a dispossessed media proprietor to Ankara to face financial charges allegedly related to the 2016 failed military coup.

BCL partner John Binns's article ‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? The Problem of the UK and Europol' has been published by Reports Legal.

There has been a notable lack of FCA enforcement in the crypto sector to date.