by Yasmin Robinson | Jul 29, 2022 | News
The government will introduce the register of overseas entities (ROE) on 1 August 2022. The ROE requires anonymous foreign owners of UK property to reveal their identities. It’s being introduced to make it more difficult for foreign criminals to launder money though... 
by Yasmin Robinson | Jul 25, 2022 | News
The new register of overseas entities (ROE) created under the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 comes into force next Monday (1st August). This will impact you if you are either acting for overseas entities in property transactions or if you are... 
by Yasmin Robinson | Jul 6, 2022 | News
The Legal Services Affinity Group (LSAG) is made up of both regulatory and representative bodies for legal services in the UK. It has produced guidance on the anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, which for firms supervised by the SRA for AML now constitutes... 
by Yasmin Robinson | Jul 1, 2022 | News
The SRA has issued new guidance to help solicitors understand their obligations and to highlight issues to consider before receiving and accepting instructions from vulnerable clients or third parties acting on their behalf. The guidance explains how to go about... 
by Yasmin Robinson | Mar 11, 2022 | News
Personal data breaches from the ICO’s caseload during 2020/2021 have seen a steady increase in the number and severity caused by ransomware. This is a type of malicious software or “malware” designed to block access to computer systems, and the data held within them,...
