The Court of Appeal quashed the defendant’s conviction for money laundering under section 328 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002: ‘In our view the natural and ordinary meaning of section 328(1) is that the arrangement to which it refers must be one which relates to property which is criminal property at the time when […]

[1998] EWCA Civ 1474 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2005/226.html      

[2005] EWCA Civ 226 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2005/226.html            

A civil case against an alleged money launderer based upon the defendant’s dishonest assistance in a breach of trust, the Privy Council held that a person could know, and could certainly suspect, that he was assisting in a misappropriation of money without knowing that the money was held on trust or what a trust meant: […]

2001] EWCA Civ 52 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2001/52.html

A solicitors who failed to heed the Law Society’s Blue Card warning on money laundering was foolish but not dishonest. Appeal allowed. http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2008/1007.html

Court of Appeal judgment [2008] EWCA Civ 104 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2008/104.html

The first final decision on a contested application by the Assets Recovery Agency for a Recovery Order, based on allegations of mortgage fraud, conspiracies to defraud and money laundering. The court dismissed an argument that no property was obtained from alleged mortgage fraud based on R v Preddy [1996] AC 815. http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2007/162.html