Banks and Financial Crime The International Law of Tainted Money

by Blair, William; Brent, Richard; Grant, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780198716587
• ISBN10: 0198716583
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-03-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

William Blair, High Court Judge, Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, Queen's Bench Division,Richard Brent, Barrister, 3 Verulam Buildings,Tom Grant, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

The Hon. Mr Justice Blair is a High Court Judge, a nominated judge in the Commercial Court and Judge in charge of the Commercial Court. Before his appointment in 2008 he worked as a leading barrister specialising in the law of domestic and international banking and finance, including financial fraud and conflicts of law. He is a visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics.


Richard Brent is a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings specializing in commercial law, in particular banking and insurance law and their international and EU law aspects. He is a former Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and a F.R.Hist.S.

Dr Tom Grant is a Research Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge, and a practising public international lawyer, whose interests include State immunity, State succession, international investment protection, international organizations, use of force under international law, comparative constitutional law, diplomatic history, and technology and the law. He is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts, New York and the District of Columbia.

Table of Contents

I The International Law of Tainted Money
1. General Introduction: Some Problems Relating to the Role of International Law, Tom Grant & Richard Brent
2. International legal sources I - the United Nations Conventions, Cheong-Ann Png
3. International Legal Sources II - The United Nations Security Council Resolutions, Cheong-Ann Png
4. International Legal Sources III - FATF Recommendations, Cheong-Ann Png
5. International Legal Sources IV - the European Union and The Council of Europe, Antonios Tzanakopoulos
6. International Legal Sources IV - The European Union and The Council of Europe, Tom Grant
II Public Obligations and Regulatory Responsibilities
A. Offences
7. Money Laundering Offences Under POCA 2002, Rudi Fortson
8. The Terrorism Acts and Conspiracy, Rudi Fortson
B. Sanctions and Regulatory Responsibilities
9. UK Sanctions regimes, Antonios Tzanakopoulos
10. Regulatory Responsibilities, Richard Brent
III The Professions and Financial Crime
11. The Professions and Financial Crime, David Kirk and Andrew Thornton-Dibb
IV The Private Law of Financial Crime
12. Claims Arising under UK Private Law, James Evans
V Financial Crime and Private International Law
13. Financial Wrong-Doing and Private International Law, Zachary Douglas & Andrew Bodnar
14. Money Had and Received, Zachary Douglas & Andrew Bodnar
15. Knowing Receipt, Zachary Douglas & Andrew Bodnar
16. Dishonest Assistance, Zachary Douglas & Andrew Bodnar
17. Deceit, Zachary Douglas & Andrew Bodnar
18. Conspiracy, Zachary Douglas & Andrew Bodnar
VI Providing and Obtaining Assistance
A.Providing Assistance
19. Investigations and Remedies under POCA 2002, Jonathan Peddie
20. Anti-Terrorism Legislation, Jonathan Peddie
B. Obtaining Assistance
21. Judicial Cooperation Including Obtaining Evidence, Jonathan Peddie
VII United States-United Kingdom Issues
22. Cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom in the Prevention and Prosecution of Financial Crime, D. Zachary Hudson
23. Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Law, Viet D. Dinh & Megan M. Wold
VIII Conclusion: Virtual Money
24. The Future of Financial Crime: Virtual Currencies, Artificial Intelligence, and Emerging Legal Questions, Kay Firth-Butterfield, Richard Brent, & Tom Grant