The Top 25 Financial Crime Cases of 2024
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Are the Russia Sanctions (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 engaged where there is ‘reasonable cause to suspect’ that an entity is owned or controlled by a designated person or are they only engaged if the entity is in fact owned or controlled by such a person? ADDED Friday 25th April 2025
Where a private prosecution had resulted in convictions and the Crown Court had then issued witness summonses in the course of the subsequent confiscation proceedings, did it have jurisdiction to do so and was that decision amenable to judicial review? ADDED Thursday 24th April 2025
Did either the passage of time since the making of a Serious Crime Prevention Order or the stated intention of the person subject to the order to move permanently abroad amount to a change of circumstance allowing the High Court to discharge the order? ADDED Thursday 23rd April 2025
Where the combined effect of a director’s disqualification order and a pre-existing disqualification undertaking exceeded the 15-year statutory maximum period under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, was that ultra virus the statute? ADDED Thursday 10th April 2025
Can a money laundering or a civil recovery investigation be commenced where no specific 'criminal property' or 'recoverable property' has yet been identified? Does property cease to be ‘criminal property’ once it is acquired for adequate consideration? ADDED Wednesday 9th April 2025
The Key Cases of 2023
The case concerned an application for anonymity in forfeiture proceedings by a person who was neither party to nor a witness in those proceedings. The court also set out the requirements regarding notice, evidence in support, content of the order etc
ADDED Thursday 7th March 2024
The case concerned the forum bar in extradition proceedings arising from charges relating to the alleged laundering and theft of the proceeds of a $4 billion Ponzi scheme. The scheme had been marketed worldwide as a cryptocurrency called 'OneCoin'.
ADDED Tuesday 21st May 2024
Did the Crown Court have jurisdiction to try an offence of offering to supply a controlled drug, where the offer was made abroad but the supply of the drug was to occur in the United Kingdom. How did the 'substantial measure of activities' test apply?
ADDED Wednesday 22nd May 2024
The case concerned the Russia sanctions regime, the provision of banking facilities to Russian corporations and the test of ownership and control. Was the Swiss subsidiary of a privately owned Russian oil company under the control of President Putin?
ADDED Friday 24th May 2024
Did the offence of 'unlawful eviction' under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 require the tenant to have been put out or kept out of physical occupation? Did 'unlawful harassment' require a course of conduct and acts rather than mere omissions?
ADDED Monday 11th March 2024
The case arose from a fatal shooting by a police firearms specialist in the honest but mistaken belief that the suspect was armed. Was the test for self-defence in police disciplinary proceedings to be that applied in the civil law or the criminal law?
ADDED Friday 8th March 2024
The case arose from a confrontation between a COVID sceptic and healthcare professionals. It concerned the boundary between freedom of expression and the offence of causing harassment, alarm or distress through threatening or abusive words or behaviour.
ADDED Wednesday 5th March 2024
The case concerned the standard of proof to be applied on applications for so-called 'gang injunctions', which aim to break down the gang culture, prevent gang-related violence from escalating and protect children from being drawn into serious crime.
ADDED Tuesday 5th March 2024
The case concerned the civic duty to perform jury service, the ‘fair-minded observer’ test in Porter v McGill [2002] AC 357 and the capacity of prospective jurors to shed their preconceived notions and to take and abide by their oaths and affirmations.
ADDED Monday 4th March 2024
The case concerned HMRC's powers to retain hard copies of documents and digital images made in the course of a criminal investigation once that investigation is over and then to share such material with their colleagues conducting civil tax inquiries.
ADDED Thursday 22nd February 2024
The case concerned the payment of a private prosecutor’s costs from central funds, the jurisdiction of the Crown Court to amend such an order other than under the slip rule, and the costs of JR proceedings where the claimant was guilty of culpable failings.
ADDED Wednesday 21st February 2024
The case concerned appeals against sentence by two 'Just Stop Oil' protestors, who had caused large-scale disruption when they climbed the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at the Dartford/Thurrock Thames crossing and refused to budge for the next 36 hours.
ADDED Friday 16th February 2024
This involved a high-profile miscarriage of justice, arising from unreliable identification evidence. Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in prison protesting his innocence and was finally cleared as a result of developments in the science of DNA analysis.
ADDED Wednesday 14th February 2024
The case concerned the approach to be taken to the imposition of custodial sentences during times of prison overcrowding. That factor could be taken into account by a sentencing judge when deciding whether a sentence of imprisonment should be suspended.
ADDED Tuesday 13th February 2024
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The case concerned the forum bar in extradition proceedings arising from charges relating to the alleged laundering and theft of the proceeds of a $4 billion Ponzi scheme. The scheme had been marketed worldwide as a cryptocurrency called 'OneCoin'.
ADDED Tuesday 21st May 2024
“A video mocking the victims of the Grenfell tragedy had been sent via Whatsapp and posted on YouTube. The man who allegedly filmed the video was charged with sending a grossly offensive message by means of a public electronic communications network.”
Re-released: Monday 21st March 2022
Re-released: Monday 21st March 2022
The lawfulness of steps taken by the Justice Secretary and the Probation Service, following the Fishmongers’ Hall terrorist attack, to tighten the licence conditions of terrorist offenders released on licence.
Re-released: Saturday 19th March 2022
Re-released: Saturday 19th March 2022
The case concerned whether Boris Johnson's advice to the Queen to prorogue Parliament for an extended period (advice which she was constitutionally bound to follow) trespassed beyond the limits of the prerogative power and whether it was justiciable.
Re-released: Thursday 17th March 2022