Sentences with phrase «serious organised crime»

The Serious Organised Crime Agency v Azam [2013] EWCA Civ 970 (31 July 2013) Successful appeal to the Court of Appeal resulting in a variation of a Property Freezing Order so as to allow Mr Azam to fund the defence of civil recovery proceedings brought against him by SOCA.

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.

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.

The fact that a bank has complied with its money laundering obligations — and the Serious Organised Crime Agency has not sought to prevent a particular transaction — is no guarantee that a civil action can not still be pursued.

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).

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 firms are among 102 blue - chip companies listed by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) as clients of four investigators convicted of data offences last year.

However, a third admitted that they do not know how to decide whether to report a suspicion to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), with 15 % relying on «gut instinct».

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The likelihood remains that it will be split up and merged, partly with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and partly with the new National Crime Agency (NCA) due to replace the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) set up under the Labour government.

Chambers are acknowledged as specialist fraud barristers as well as having appeared in some of the most high - profile trials involving serious organised crime, terrorism and murder.

It is often assumed that the a jury is needed to ensure a fair trial, but Sir Louis Blom - Cooper argues in an interesting article in the Guardian that juries may not always be essential, particularly in cases involving serious organised crime.

In the absence of any evidence of legitimate income, and where an individual has a substantial history of theft and drug offences, the High Court has taken the view (Serious Organised Crime Agency v Turrall) that items of property have been purchased with the proceeds of crime.

He has been involved in many high profile cases including murders, drugs conspiracies and serious organised Crime.

A further four SARs were made over the next five months, with transactions being delayed while HSBC awaited consent to proceed from NCA (then known as the Serious Organised Crime Agency or SOCA).

The successors are the National Policing Improvement Agency in relation to accreditation and training of civilian financial investigators and the Serious Organised Crime Agency for all other cases.

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.

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.

The firm has expertise in dealing with the Serious Organised Crime Agency «SOCA» and the police and other agencies in relation to Suspicious Activity Report «SARs».

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

Tuckers Solicitors Fraud & White - Collar Business Crime Department has an renowned international reputation for successfully defending cases brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), National Crime Squad, HM Customs & Excise (HMRC), the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), Financial Services Authority (FSA), Fraud Prosecution Division, Ministry of Defence, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Department of Trade and Industry and the Casework Directorate at the Crown Prosecution Service.

On appeal from [2015] NIQB 33 This case considered whether, in exercising the discretion in the Serious Organised Crime...

Our team of lawyers and technology experts are able to forensically analyse electronic devices, computer hard drives and telephones, as well as being trained in the software packages used by prosecuting authorities such as the Police, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Federation against Copyright & Software Theft (FACT), the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society, as well as numerous local government trading standards departments.

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-.

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.

Although the Serious Organised Crime Agency resisted investigating possible criminal wrong - doing by these companies (on the basis of damage to the economy) public pressure forced the government to announce plans to introduce a licencing system and new regulations.

A substantial civil recovery claim brought by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) following the stay of three criminal trials spanning 1999 — 2003.

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)

Perry and others v Serious Organised Crime Agency; Perry and others No. 2 v Serious Organised Crime Agency [2012] UKSC 35, [2012] All ER (D) 252 (Jul)

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The group hit the headlines in 2011 after attacking a string of high - profile targets, including Nintendo, Sony, Bethesda, 20th Century Fox, the NHS and SOCA - the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Last year a study by the universities of Leicester and Westminster, working with the Serious Organised Crime Agency, estimated that 200K people had been victims of online dating fraud.

GUARDIAN.CO.UK - Sep 28 - More than 200K people in Britain may have been conned by fraudsters posing as would - be romantic partners on dating sites, according a study by the universities of Leicester and Westminster, working with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).

SUNDAY TIMES - Nov 28 - Romance scammers are to be targeted by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).

According to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) romance fraud is organised crime, usually operating from outside the UK.

But after sustained pressure from the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the Metropolitan Police and the Information Commissioner Sir Christopher Graham, MPs will discuss whether to proceed.»

The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency flagged it and police moved to arrest him.

The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office was set up on in 2005 to prosecute offences for the former HM Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue (now HM Revenue and Customs) and in 2006, for the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

The Association of Chief Police Officers pointed out modern policing faces a number of complex challenges, including tackling serious organised crime and terrorism.

Speaking to the Times after the European Serious Organised Crime Conference in Liverpool, he said he could not see a way the «awful scenario» would not happen, based on current trends.

«We will create a dedicated Border Police Force, as part of a refocused Serious Organised Crime Agency, to enhance national security, improve immigration controls and crack down on the trafficking of people, weapons and drugs.