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DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTION v BIJOU
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 1
Proceeds of crime – Confiscation – Civil recovery – Issue estoppel – Abuse of process.
R (SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE) v COOK AND MASON
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 2
Criminal proceedings – Criminal Procedure Rules, rules 5.8, 5.10 – Criminal Practice Directions 2023, para 2 – Open justice – Media – Publication – Reporting restrictions.
R v TEASDALE
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 3
Enforcement receiver – Confiscation orders – Confiscation proceedings – Benefit from criminal conduct.
WIEROMIEJZYK AND ANOTHER v DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 4
External requests – Restraint orders – Brexit – Necessity – Proportionality.
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS v SURIN
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 5
Civil recovery – Alternative procedure (CPR Part 8) – Summary judgment (CPR Part 24) – Admissibility of evidence.
TAKTOUK v R (BENHERST FINANCE LTD AND CHESTONE INDUSTRY HOLDING)
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 6
Confiscation – Available amount – Fresh evidence – Proceeding afresh – Increase of available amount would not make order more severe on appeal.
R v SKEENE AND BOWERS
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 7
Conspiracy to defraud – Elements of offence – Indictments – Particulars – Indictments Act 1915 – Criminal Procedure Rules 2020.
EL-KHOURI v GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 8
Insider dealing – Territorial scope – Criminal Justice Act 1993, section 52 and 62 – Extradition – Extradition Act 2003, section 137 – Double criminality – Money laundering – Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, section 329.
R (HARVEY) v LUTON AND SOUTH BEDFORDSHIRE MAGISTRATES' COURT AND ANOTHER, BEDFORDSHIRE POLICE, INTERESTED PARTY
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 9
Account freezing orders – Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 – Magistrates' Courts Rules 1981 (SI 1981 No 552 (L 1)) – Judicial review.
R v KAMRAN
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 10
Fraud – Gold bullion – Criminal property – Entering into an arrangement to facilitate money laundering.
R v OVSIANNIKOV AND OTHERS
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 11
Financial sanctions – Proceeds of crime – Prosecution – Circumvention – Knowledge.
ATTORNEY GENERAL v AFEX OFFSHORE (JERSEY) LTD
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 12
Deferred Prosecution Agreements (Jersey) – Criminal Justice (Deferred Prosecution Agreements) (Jersey) Law 2023 – Criminal Procedure (Jersey) Law 2018 – Money Laundering (Jersey) Law 2008 – Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999.
KHAN v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT AFFAIRS
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 13
Appeal – Order dismissing claim under Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, section 38(2) – Padfield principles and the test for proportionality – Whether the designation is a disproportionate interference with article 8 and article 1, Protocol 1, ECHR – Rational connection – Bank Mellat test – Right of access to the court under article 6 ECHR and/or procedural obligations guaranteed by article 8 ECHR.
R v OVSIANNIKOV AND OVSIANNIKOW
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 14
Sanctions breaches – Approach to sentence – Assessment of harm.
FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY v OSUNKOYA
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 15
Sentencing remarks – Money laundering – Terrorist financing – Transfer of funds – Forgery – Criminal property
R (HANDA) v WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES' COURT
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 16
Financial crime – Private prosecution – Without notice applications – Duty of candour – Fraud Act 2006.
ISMAILOV v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT AFFAIRS
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 17
Sanctions – Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 – Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019 No 855) – Money laundering.
DIRECTOR OF THE SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE v SCHOOLS
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 18
Proceeds of crime – Serious Fraud Office – Unexplained Wealth Orders – Interim Freezing Orders – Whether unexplained wealth and interim freezing orders should be made in relation to the ex-wife of convicted fraudster.
R v KELLY
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 19
Confiscation orders – Beneficial interests – Proprietary estoppel – Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, section 10A – Law of Property Act 1925, section 53.
R v BRYANT AND ANOTHER
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 20
Fraud by false representation – Money laundering – Multiple-incident counts – Jury directions – Sentencing.
DANA ASTRA IOOO (A COMPANY REGISTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS) v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT AFFAIRS
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 21
Sanctions – Extraterritorial jurisdiction – Proportionality – Possession under ECHR, article 1 Protocol 1.
R v JACOB (FORMERLY OYEBOLA)
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 22
Proceeds of crime – Appeal – Application for leave to appeal by the prosecutor under the court's inherent power – Application for leave to appeal under Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, section 31 – Application for leave to re-open a final determination under CrimPR Part 36.15.
R v CULLEN ASBESTOS LTD
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 23
Northern Ireland – Health and safety offences – Dissolved companies – Register of Companies – Restoration – Asbestos.
REID v COMMISSIONERS FOR HIS MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS AND OTHERS
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 24
Legal professional privilege – Crime-fraud exception – Iniquity exception – Whether exception applied to seized material – Conspiracy to cheat public revenue – Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, section 59(2) – Whether tax due on Disguised Remuneration Loans under Finance (No 2) Act 2017, schedule 11 and Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003, Part 7A.
HKSARF v LAM CHEUK TING (林卓廷)
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 25
Statutory interpretation – Legislative purpose – Disclosure offence – Actus reus – Mens rea – Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ("POBO"), Part II – ICAC investigation.
BILTA (UK) LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) AND OTHERS v TRADITION FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD NATHANAEL EURL LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) AND ANOTHER v TRADITION FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 26
Insolvency – Fraudulent trading.
IQBAL AND ANOTHER v CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 27
Conspiracy – Criminal Law Act 1977, section 1(2) – Intent or knowledge.
SHVIDLER v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT AFFAIRS; DALSTON PROJECTS LTD AND OTHERS v SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRANSPORT
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 29
Financial sanctions – Transport sanctions – Proportionality – Standard of review – Appellate review.
CHANANA v KHAN
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 30
Sanctions – Insolvency – Asset freeze – Prior obligations – Statutory demand – Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 – Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019 No 855) – Insolvency Rules 2016 (SI 2016 No 1024) – Council Regulation (EU) 269/2014.
R v BARTHOLOMEW
[2025] Lloyd's Rep. FC Plus 31
Pensions – Private prosecutions – Summary offences – Sentence – Costs.