The leading text on money laundering law in the UK and EU.

Containing original essays by a distinguished group of jurists from six different European countries, this book confronts the increasing range of legal and philosophical issues arising from the relationship between privacy and the criminal law. The collection is particularly timely in light of the incorporation into English law of the European Convention on Human Rights. It compares legal cultures and underlying assumptions with regard to the private sphere, personal autonomy and the supposed justifications for State interference through criminalization and the implementation of substantive...

This volume consists of the keynote papers delivered at the 2012 W.G. Hart Workshop on Globalization, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, organized by the Queen Mary Criminal Justice Center. From a cross-disciplinary perspective, the book addresses the multifarious relationship between globalization on the one hand, and criminal law and justice on the other hand. At a time when economic, political, and cultural systems across different jurisdictions are increasingly becoming, or are perceived to be, parts of a coherent global whole, it appears that the study of crime and criminal justice...

This book surveys the development of laws surrounding the crime of money laundering and the associated changes in the anti-money laundering (AML) industry.

The fallout from the financial crisis of 2007-8, HSBC Suisse in 2015, and the Panama Papers in 2016 has generated calls for far more vigorous and punitive responses to tax evasion and greater international co-operation against mechanisms for giving anonymity to the ownership of property. One mechanism to ensure compliance is the use of the criminal justice system. The announcement in 2013 by the then Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, of a policy of increasing rates of prosecution for tax evasion raised squarely the issue of whether increased involvement of criminal law and...