The Financial Services Authority and Proceeds of Crime Act – too little too late?

Dr Nicholas Ryder, Reader in Law, Department of Law, University of the West of England

Abstract

This article reviews the impact of the decision of the Supreme Court in R v Rollins [2010] UKSC 39 on the prosecutorial powers of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in relation to the money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.