Sentences with phrase «organised crime act»

The introduction of wide reaching legislation in the UK (including, the Enterprise Act 2002, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Serious Organised Crime Act 2005, Fraud Act 2006, Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, Bribery Act 2010 and the Criminal Finances Act 2017) as well as the increasingly global and aggressive approach taken by the regulatory authorities both in the UK and abroad, highlight the need for businesses, their officers and employees to be able to navigate their way effectively through the regulatory minefield facing them in their day - to - day operations.

See, for example, section 2 Criminal Justice Act 1987; section 62 Serious Organised Crime Act 2005; section 165 Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

He added: «I think it's regrettable that people have been so quiescent about what the Serious Organised Crime Act has done to people who want to demonstrate.

Not exact matches

The judge, Maria Sizintseva, said they acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

At a hearing in Moscow's Tverskoy District Court to decide whether Magomedov and his associates should be detained before their trial, Judge Maria Sizintseva said they had acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

The five protesters, all from campaign group Plane Stupid, have already been arrested under the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act and will return to a central London police station for further questioning in April.

Should our governments and international bodies fail to act quickly and effectively, organised crime and corruption will continue to penetrate our sports industry, It will, as the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions» latest report puts it bluntly, «pose a threat to the future of sport».

The work had piquancy, as Haw's protest, begun in 2001, was largely dismantled on May 23 2006, following the passing of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act forbidding unauthorised demonstrations within a kilometre of Parliament Square.

Lawyers for the Tate pored over the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act before artist Mark Wallinger recreated a spectacular anti-war protest from Parliament Square, filling the stately Duveen galleries which mostly lie within the exclusion zone banning such demonstrations.

The work had particular piquancy as Haw's protest, which had begun in June 2001, was largely dismantled on May 23 2006, following the passing by parliament of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act that forbade unauthorised demonstrations within a kilometre of Parliament Square.

The removal of the protest was made legal by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 which, astonishingly, forbade unauthorised protests within one mile of parliament - a fact that Wallinger believes flies in the face of our most basic rights as citizens.

Where a person has been arrested for an indictable (formerly an arrestable) offence, s 18 (1) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE 1984), as amended by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, empowers the police to enter and search any premises «occupied or controlled» by the person under arrest where the relevant officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that he will find on the premises evidence relating to the indictable offence for which the person has been arrested, or evidence relating to some other indictable offence which is connected with or similar to that offence.

Serious Organised Crime Agency v Perry and others (proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002)[2009] EWHC 1960 (Admin), [2009] All ER (D) 337 (Jul)

It did not slip into the Act during a late night parliamentary sitting or, like the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 which created the now to be abolished Serious Organsed Crime Agency, get nodded through in a parliamentary rush on the eve of a general election.

Whether the conditions for the making of a disclosure order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 existed or did not exist was essentially a question of fact, the question being whether there were «reasonable grounds for believing» that the material relied upon by the Serious Organised Crime Agency was likely to be of substantial value and that it was in the public interest that the material should be produced or that access to it should be given having regard to: (a) the benefit likely to accrue to the civil recovery investigation if the material was obtained; and (b) the circumstances under which the person concerned had any of the material in his possession, power or control (criteria (a) and (b)-RRB-.

If these concerns were not enough, then there is the uncomfortable thought that the government has not remembered its own Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005), s 110, which reformed the law on citizen's arrest.

This Part (cl1) would repeal ss 132 to 138 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005), which currently regulates static demonstrations around Parliament.

Raj Chada, partner at Hodge Jones & Allen LLP, comments: «This case concerns the circumstances in which sentences passed on assisting offenders should be referred back to the sentencing court under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005), s 74.

Tom Epps reflects on how new powers in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act are likely to impact on investigations

In this case the court dealt with the new provisions under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005), ss 71 — 75, which allows for persons to provide information to the prosecuting authorities in return for sentencing discounts, so called plea bargaining.

Of the 10 barristers named, the top five and one of the remainder were all instructed to act for different defendants in the prosecution of Terry Adams by the Serious and Organised Crime Office.

The Director of the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office has issued guidance on the use of Disclosure Notices under Pt 2 Chapter 1 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

Ambiguity as to breadth of criminal conduct would also engage disastrously with the UK's onerous regime of money laundering reporting requirements created by the Proceeds of Crime Act with the result that the Serious Organised Crime Agency would be overwhelmed by defensive reporting.

The statutory powers available to the commissioner of police under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005), s 134 can be exercised by a subordinate on his behalf; where the conditions imposed on a demonstration under SOCPA 2005 are unworkable, they will be found to be ultra vires or in breach of Arts 10 and 11 (rights to freedom of expression and assembly) of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention).

Under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005), s 60, HMRC now also has wider powers to conduct its own investigations into tax - related crimes, such as tax fraud.

Legislation such as the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005) has placed immunity from prosecution on a statutory footing and the Office of Fair Trading has published detailed guidance about how immunity can be secured.