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AML/CTF Reform: The Uplift the Legal Industry Needs – What This Means For You

31 May 2024

Caroline Hayward and Evan Manolios set out the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) reform coming to the legal sector.

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Challenge to “Letters of No Consent” regime laid to rest by the Court of Final Appeal

21 May 2024

By Paul Starr, Jesse Tizard, Jenny Fok, Sian Knight

In the case Tam Sze Leung v Commissioner of Police [1], the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (“CFA”) unanimously upheld the “Letters of No Consent” (“LNC”) regime, as operated by the police under the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance (Cap.

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The five W’s and How of Hong Kong’s mutual evaluation assessment

5 July 2019

By Leonie Tear

As Hong Kong eagerly anticipates the release of the Financial Action Task Force’s (“FATF”) mutual evaluation report (“MER”), discussed at last month’s FATF Plenary, we decided the timing was right to take a quick look at the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW AND WHY of mutual evaluations.

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