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125.00 + VAT |
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| Start Date: | |
20-05-2010 |
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| CPD hours: | |
2.00 |
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| Event type: | |
CPD Seminars |
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| Location: | |
The Law Society Halls 113 Chancery Lane |
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Greater London United Kingdom |
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Overview
• Terrorists may be targeting your client account. How do you find out?
• Isn’t counter-terrorist financing the same as AML? – No. Discover the important and essential differences.
• Are you up to date with the latest in terrorist financing techniques and geographical hotspots?
• What are your reporting obligations? How do you balance these with issues of legal professional privilege?
• What implications does the judgement in Shah v HSBC have on how you treat the reporting of counter-terrorist financing?
This seminar will answer these questions and provide practical tips on related issues so that you can safeguard your most important asset – your professional reputation. You will have the opportunity to interact with experienced practitioners and representatives from the police and the prosecution.
Who should attend?
Those practising in the following areas: financial and investment services, banking law, commercial property, general commercial litigation, fraud, trusts, charities and professional regulation.
Topics to be covered include
- Chairman’s address – Monty Raphael, Special Counsel, Peters & Peters
- Keynote address: Prosecutorial perspectives
Moira Macmillan, Crown Advocate, CPS - Latest trends in terrorist financing
DI Robert Lock, National Terrorist Financing Investigation Unit (NTFIU) - Balancing legal professional privilege with reporting obligations
Christopher Murray, Senior Partner, Kingsley Napley - The US approach to counter terrorist financing
Mark Johnson, First Secretary, Economics Section, The US Embassy, London
The speakers
Monty Raphael, Special Counsel, Peters and Peters, is a specialist in all aspects of domestic and international business crime and regulation. He is acknowledged as the “doyen” of the UK's fraud lawyers.
Moira Macmillan, Crown Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service. Moira has been involved in a number of high profile prosecutions under both the terrorism and the racial hatred provisions, including the Danish Cartoon Protestors and the Bristol bomber.
Christopher Murray, is Kingsley Napley's senior partner, having been a partner in the firm for over 35 years. He was until recently the Chairman of the Criminal Law Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales and was also a founder member of the Society's Money Laundering Task Force.
DI Robert Lock, National Terrorist Financing Investigation Unit (NTFIU)
Mark Johnson, First Secretary, Economics Section, The US Embassy, London
Venue and times
The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1P
17.00-17.30 registration and refreshments
17.30-19.30 seminar
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