Trusts and Beneficial Ownership Registration
Following analysis in last month’s newsletter on the revised guidance in the 2021 Legal Sector Aff...
Recording Telephone Conversations
Recording telephone calls is proving ever more useful to law firms – if only as a means of ensurin...
Changed “Tax Adviser” Status to be Notified to the SRA
SRA stresses need for records to be updated for those already AML regulated firms now regarded as op...
Regularising Home-Working
The current COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly affected the lives of most people. For ...
Solicitors and Negative Interest Rates
A great deal of speculation is rife about the possibility of negative interest rates and the impact ...
Increased Compliance Requirements for AML
The long-promised update to the Legal Sector Affinity Group AML Guidance was published on Wednesda...
2020 – That Was The Year That Was
For the vast majority of us, 2020 will be a year that we will not forget, and mostly for all of the ...
Extensions to the Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Regime
Ever since the anti-money laundering regime was first extended to the legal profession the scope of ...
The Difficult Work of the LeO
The annual report on the Legal Ombudsman service in September reported not only on those areas of le...
Registering Beneficial Interests and the Trust Registration Service
The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) (UK Exit) Regulations 2020 have, inter alia...