A view from the Bar

In this edition Philip Ingram MBE chats with Fergus McCombie, a barrister with 36 Commercial (Cyber and Employment team), and Ceri Davis, a barrister with 36 Commercial (Cyber and Commercial Crime and Regulation team). about the ICO, the GDPR and the British Airways £20 million Fine For A Customer Data Breach.

They are both co-authors, together with Dean Armstrong QC, of the forthcoming legal text 'Cyber Litigation: The Legal Principles'.    

In this FinCEN leak episode Philip Ingram MBE is chatting with Philip Hackett QC who leads the 36 Commercial Crime team with Racheal Muldoon a barrister on the 36 Commercial Crime team and John Binns of BCL Solicitors.

BBC Panorama made a sensational programme about the leaks, is there substance to their outrage? Judge for yourselves! 

Louise Bennett, a Partner with Howard Kennedy LLP, Ceri Davis, a barrister with 36 Commercial (Commercial Crime & Regulation team) and Racheal Muldoon, a barrister with 36 Commercial (Commercial Crime & Regulation team) chat with Philip Ingram MBE about Fraudulent Property Investment Schemes.

Louise is a solicitor with an expertise in company shareholder disputes, corporate and financial litigation, fraudulent misrepresentation, and bribery and corruption. She supports clients caught up in collective investment schemes, Ponzi and advance fee fraud schemes, employee frauds, insolvency litigation, breach of trust, and director's duties. She helps clients manage the significant legal, commercial, and reputational risks associated with commercial fraud.

Her contact details are:

t: +44 (0)20 3755 5380
[email protected]

In this episode Philip Ingram MBE talks with Head of Chambers with the 36 Group, Dean Armstrong QC and Louise Bennett, a Partner with the leading law firm Howard Kennedy LLP.  Todays topic is Investment Fraud and gives insights to some of the things Louise and Dean are seeing during these difficult times, but also gives some practical advice in how to avoid them. 

Louise is a solicitor with an expertise in company shareholder disputes, corporate and financial litigation, fraudulent misrepresentation, and bribery and corruption. She supports clients caught up in collective investment schemes, Ponzi and advance fee fraud schemes, employee frauds, insolvency litigation, breach of trust, and director's duties. She helps clients manage the significant legal, commercial, and reputational risks associated with commercial fraud.

Her contact details are:

t: +44 (0)20 3755 5380
[email protected]

Philip Ingram MBE chats with John Campbell SC, with the 36 Commercial and Rory Lynch from Vardags about privacy using ZXC v Bloomberg as a framework. However, our discussions get on to the Cliff Richard case as well.

Rory is a Senior Associate at Vardags. He is a specialist in all areas of media litigation, with a particular emphasis on reputation management and protection, libel and defamation, and privacy.

Rory's contact details are below:
Tel:  +44 (0)207 404 9390
Fax: +44 (0)207 404 8995
Web:  vardags.com

Philip Ingram MBE chats with Dean Armstrong QC, Head of Chambers with the 36 Group and Lisa Short about all things data and blockchain. Everything you need to know is in this PODCAST including how China has stolen a march on the West.

Lisa  is in the top 100 B2B Thought Leaders in the World to follow in 2020.  

Recognised as a visionary and transformational strategist whose 30 plus years of experience, combined with lifelong learning has enabled delivery of quantum leap change in global ageing, Industry 4.0, education, social impact, women’s empowerment and business leadership. 

Her ethos is that “big challenges require big solutions” and don’t be afraid of achieving them. She is an Ambassador of Change for Frontier Technology, Education, Business & Social Impact, Women's Leadership.

In this episode Philip Ingram MBE chats withe Lauren Rapeport an associate with Withers LLP (withersworldwide.com) and Ben Symons a Barrister with 36 Commercial (https://36group.co.uk/commercial) and we explore the fascinating world of Cryptocurrency, its legal status and legal tax status and much more.

Lauren is an associate in the private client and tax team. She advises on a broad range of trusts, tax, probate and succession planning issues, both domestic and international, for individuals, trustees, family offices and charities. She also advises on tax compliance matters as part of the Tax Investigations group.

Ben is an experienced barrister with extensive experience in both commercial and taxation matters and has published a book, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Taxation Insight through Bloomsbury Professional.

Philip Ingram MBE chats with Max Hobbs a Solicitor with Macfarlanes LLP and Racheal Muldoon a Barrister with the 36 Commercial Crime team about money laundering regulations using the Commerzbank London fine as a basis.  This is Part 2 and examines what could be done to protect institutions from falling foul of the regulations.

36 Commercial Crime is a specialist team within 36 Commercial  focusing in White Collar, Fraud, Investigations, financial Crime and more.  

Racheal has a diverse practice encompassing Financial Crime and Regulation, White Collar Crime, Art and Cultural Heritage Law, Civil Forfeiture and Condemnation, Licensing and Regulatory. 

She defends Fraud and POCA matters and also assists the Serious Fraud Office with ongoing high-profile investigations. Racheal has worked directly with the Financial Conduct Authority where she was an Associate within the Criminal Prosecution Team focussing predominately on investigations. 

Max is an associate in the corporate crime and investigations team at Macfarlanes, which is where he trained and qualified. His team advises individuals and corporate clients across the full spectrum of white collar crime, and his particular area of expertise and interest is money laundering; as such advising clients on the quirks of the Proceeds of Crime Act or assisting companies with their anti-money laundering arrangements.

Macfarlanes is a London-based law firm but the majority of its work has an international dimension. Traditionally known for corporate and private client work, in recent years the firm’s litigation team has grown significantly and in late 2018 it established a new corporate crime and investigations team that has been notably active, winning The Legal 500 award for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime – Team of the Year.  

Philip Ingram chats with Max Hobbs a Solicitor with Macfarlanes LLP and Racheal Muldoon a Barrister with the 36 Commercial Crime team about money laundering regulations using the Commerzbank London fine as a basis.  This Part 1 of a more in depth look at the detail in Part 2.

36 Commercial Crime is a specialist team within 36 Commercial  focusing in White Collar, Fraud, Investigations, financial Crime and more.  

Racheal has a diverse practice encompassing Financial Crime and Regulation, White Collar Crime, Art and Cultural Heritage Law, Civil Forfeiture and Condemnation, Licensing and Regulatory. 

She defends Fraud and POCA matters and also assists the Serious Fraud Office with ongoing high-profile investigations. Racheal has worked directly with the Financial Conduct Authority where she was an Associate within the Criminal Prosecution Team focussing predominately on investigations. 

Max is an associate in the corporate crime and investigations team at Macfarlanes, which is where he trained and qualified. His team advises individuals and corporate clients across the full spectrum of white collar crime, and his particular area of expertise and interest is money laundering; as such advising clients on the quirks of the Proceeds of Crime Act or assisting companies with their anti-money laundering arrangements.

Macfarlanes is a London-based law firm but the majority of its work has an international dimension. Traditionally known for corporate and private client work, in recent years the firm’s litigation team has grown significantly and in late 2018 it established a new corporate crime and investigations team that has been notably active, winning The Legal 500 award for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime – Team of the Year.  

In this Episode Philip Ingram MBE is chatting with Dean Armstrong QC, Head of Chambers with the 36 Group and Robert Coffey, the Managing Partner with Cooke, Young and Keidan.  

We chat about the challenges of running a legal practice through the lockdown, their vision of what the new normal could be and whether Distributed Ledger Technologies including blockchain and elements like cryptocurrencies that us it have a place in that new normal?

Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP
Tel: +44 (0)20 7148 7800
www.cyklaw.com    www.cyklaw.tech

36 Commercial
Tel: 020 7421 8030
www.36group.co.uk

Deans latest publication can be accessed here: http://www.jordanpublishing.co.uk/practice-areas/law-for-business/publications/cyber-law