Chambers & Partners recently launched the Chambers High Net Worth Guide which is their first publication specifically aimed at the international private wealth market.

The guide ranks BCL in Band 1 of the leading firms in the UK in the Financial Crime practice area, stating that “BCL Burton Copeland is ‘unquestionably at the top of the tree,’ says a source.”

The inaugural international conference of the Fraud Lawyers Association (“FLA”) and European Fraud & Compliance Lawyers took place in Central London on Friday 17 June 2016, with keynote speaker, David Green CB QC, Director of the SFO.

Guy Bastable, Tom McNeill and Richard Reichman prepared a Thomson Reuters Q&A guide to business crime and investigations in the UK: corporate manslaughter, health and safety offences and environmental offences.

This year’s International Bar Association’s Annual Transnational Crime Conference was held in Panama City, between 11 and 13 May 2016.

As part of the conference, BCL partner, Brian Spiro, participated in a panel on “21st Century Financial Crime – Benchmark Rigging LIBOR, FOREX and Lessons Learned’.

In his Judgment dated 21st March 2016 Senior District Judge Howard Riddle, the Chief Magistrate, in a comprehensive 31 page analysis discharged DAVIT KEZERASHVILI on both ‘extraneous consideration’ grounds under the Extradition Act 2003 as to political motivation behind prosecutions in Mr Kezerashvili’s home state of Georgia and also in relation to the risk of a trial untainted by political considerations. Mr Kezerashvili is one of the most senior overseas government officials whose extradition has been sought from the UK.

In conjunction with their attendance at the American Bar Association’s annual White Collar Crime Institute held in San Diego, California in early March, BCL produced “LondonCalling”, a publication containing articles of interest to an American audience on the LIBOR prosecutions, the first DPA in England and cyber-crime.

Richard Sallybanks and Jonathan Flynn discuss the new provisions under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.