News & Briefings
BSQ instructed in Challenging UK’s largest Confiscation Order
BSQ partner and Fraud expert Daniel Godden together with private client partner Roger Sahota have been instructed in challenging one of the U.K.’s largest confiscation orders.
BSQ Instructed in AFO - High Net Worth Individuals Targeted in Corruption Crackdown
On the 17th April 2018 the police were given new powers which are now being used to freeze the bank accounts of wealthy London based foreign nationals.
BSQ Fraud Team instructed to Challenge £64m Confiscation Order
BSQ’s Fraud defence team has been appointed to represent Dr Gerald Smith in enforcement proceedings concerning one of the highest confiscation orders ever made – now standing in excess of £64m including interest - ever made in the UK.
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.
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.
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.
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.