December, 2022 - Extradition UK

22nd Dec 2022

Silver Notices revisited: INTERPOL considers new forms of recovering criminal assets

INTERPOL has decided to establish an Expert Working Group to assess various proposals devoted to the exchange of financial information and to the tracing and recovery of criminal assets. This group will consider various proposals including reviving the concept of a “Silver Notice” devoted to the tracing and recovery of criminal assets. The idea of […]

United Kingdom

22nd Dec 2022

Comity, reciprocity and collateral use – why the High Court is right that MLA does not exist in a vacuum.

On 4 November 2022 Mrs Justice Joanna Smith handed down a judgement in the case of the FCA v Konstantinos Papadimitrakopoulos & Dimitris Gryparis clarifying and further restricting the use to which evidence obtained from an overseas authority may be put outside of that agreed with the foreign authority. As a former Head of the […]

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