by Sarah Haynes | Jun 29, 2026 | Anti-money laundering, Article
You may recall an excitable period last summer where we were promised a “clearer and more proportionate anti-money laundering (AML) regime”, when the government recognised that AML checks were seen as a major burden to law firms? Well, those changes, following the...
by Sarah Haynes | Jun 25, 2026 | Article
We set out our thoughts on the Government’s consultation on the transfer of Anti-money laundering & counter terrorist-Financing (AML) supervision from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) (and other legal regulators) to the FCA in December last year (here)....
by Sarah Haynes | Jun 22, 2026 | Article
Following the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’s latest plenary session, which concluded on Friday (19/6/26), the lists of high-risk countries have been updated again. As a reminder, the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs) (still currently) require that Enhanced Due...
by Sarah Haynes | Jun 22, 2026 | Article
The SRA’s updated Effective supervision – Guidance was finally published on 12th June 2026. This follows the Court of Appeal’s much-heralded ‘conduct of litigation’ judgment in the Mazur case in March (see some of our previous thoughts here). By way of a reminder,...
by Sarah Haynes | Jun 16, 2026 | Article
Further to previous posts on the subject of the new HMRC tax adviser registration requirement, HMRC has finally provided substantive guidance on who the regime applies to (see here). The definition of a ‘tax adviser’ for the purposes of the underlying legislation...
