06/06/2016
Eleanor Mawrey successfully prosecutes a £8.8m Money Laundering Regulations 2007 case on behalf of HMRC. Mr Nkiwane had been running a Money Service Business, under the trading name Iron Rod Enterprises in Luton, Beds. The business had transferred almost £8.8m to Zimbabwe since September 2010 and despite warnings by HMRC had failed to register. Mr Nkiwane pleaded guilty in what is one of the few prosecutions to date for failing to register under the Money Laundering Regulations and received a 12 months suspended sentence. Interestingly, Mr Nkiwane had previously had a conviction for rape overturned by the Court of Appeal, having already served over 3 years of his sentence and his case is now one of the leading authorities regarding the test for compensation following a quashed conviction: R (on the application of Nkiwane) Sec of State of Justice [2015] EWHC 2899
Eleanor acted for the CPS (HMRC).
Kerry analyses Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and the Supreme Court’s attempt to impose coherence on decades of caselaw from McLoughlin, Alcock and Frost through Walters, Shorter and Ronayne. She then asks the hard question for modern travel law practitioners: what, if anything, can claimants do…
The Counsel General for Wales and Minister for Delivery has appointed Thomas Jones to the Welsh Government’s B Panel of Counsel. Panel Counsel are appointed to provide specialist advocacy and advisory work for the Welsh Government. Tom’s appointment runs for a period of five years…
As we hit the ground running in 2026, Daniel Searle comments on selected cases concerning the BSA throughout 2025, with a particular focus on Remediation Orders and Remediation Contribution Orders. Remediation Orders (“ROs”) Monier Road Limited v Nicholas Alexander Blomfield and Other Leaseholders [2025] UKUT…
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