News & Briefings
Berkeley Square Solicitors Negotiate Favourable Confiscation Settlement
Berkeley Square Solicitors partner Goran Stojsavljevic successfully represented a client in complex confiscation proceedings following a conviction in a £3m fraudulent trading prosecution.
Berkeley Square Solicitors Instructed In Multi-Million Pound Third-Party Enforcement Receiver Proceedings
Roger Sahota has been instructed in third party enforcement proceedings emanating from one of the largest fraud cases in the country.
Berkeley Square Solicitors instructed in Third Party In Challenge to Multi-Million Pound Confiscation Order
Roger Sahota has been instructed to represent a third party interest in challenging one of the UK’s largest confiscation orders.
Confiscation Order Settlement for Berkeley Square Solicitors
Our confiscation department is happy to report another successful outcome in a case where we represented a third party to confiscation proceedings.
Cash Seizure Success for Berkeley Square Solicitors Client
Another successful outcome for our financial crime department.
Financial Crime - Roger Sahota interviewed on Legal Network Television
Roger Sahota appears on Legal Network Television preparing a practitioners guide to changes made by the Serious Crime Act to POCA 2002
From Russia With Cash - Estate Agents Cant Turn A Blind Eye to Money Laundering - Roger Sahota writes
Following on from the Channel 4 expose “From Russia with Cash” Roger Sahota writes a guide for estate agents on the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations.
New Confiscation provisions in the Serious Crime Act 2015
Roger’s summary of the new provisions written together with Nicholas Yeo, barrister of 3 Raymond Buildings is published on the blog Fraud Focus.
Confiscation Order Blogs – Reviewing the History of the Proceeds of Crime Act
The Proceeds of Crime Act legislation is the most commonly used confiscation law.
Client Guide to the Confiscation Order Process
Confiscation law is one of the most complicated areas of criminal law. Roger Sahota is one of the leading criminal solicitors in this narrow field.
Confiscation Orders Blog – Section 22 of POCA
Anecdotal evidence suggests that there has been an significant increase recently in the number of applications recently made under Section 22 of POCA 2002.
More Draconian Default Sentences On the Horizon – PAC Report On Confiscation Orders Published
Serious criminals are choosing jail as an alternative to paying their Confiscation Orders, concluded the Public Accounts Committee in it’s long awaited report on Confiscation Orders published on the 21st March 2014.
Longer Prison Sentences Will Not Solve Our Confiscation Crisis
Facing withering criticism from the Chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, a Senior Ministry of Justice official issued an ominous warning last week, writes Roger Sahota.
Tackling Serious Fraud and White Collar Crime
Roger Sahota writes for Progress Online on 27 June 2012 With the coalition facing growing criticism for it’s failure to get to grips with city crime, Labour’s policy review on Tackling Serious Fraud and White Collar Crime, announced last week, makes welcome reading.
Orders Need to Suit the Facts
Roger Sahota writes for the Law Society Gazette Opinion Column Reports that 16 of Britain’s most high-profile offenders still owe £126m in unpaid confiscation orders will not surprise anyone with an interest in financial crime.
Public Accounts Committee Scrutinises Confiscation Enforcement Record
Margaret Hodge lived up to her fearsome reputation yesterday by savaging officials from the Home Office, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Head of the National Crime Agency during questioning before the Public Accounts Committee on the subject of Confiscation Orders writes Roger Sahota.
Is Our Confiscation System Broken?
Confiscation orders are in the headlines again. The National Audit Office report published on the 17 December 2013 makes depressing yet familiar reading.
The Limits of Proportionality 1
The Supreme Court’s (SC) judgment in Waya ([2013] 1 A.C. 294) has been rightly lauded as a landmark decision in the field of post-conviction confiscation, writes Roger Sahota in the second of a series of articles considering the impact of the case.
Waya 1 - A Novel and Imaginative Development of the Law
The Supreme Court’s (SC) judgment in Waya ([2013] 1 A.C. 294) has been rightly lauded as a landmark decision in the field of post-conviction confiscation, writes Roger Sahota in the first in a series of articles considering the impact of the case.