AML Practice Guidance and Resources

Law Society Guidance

- Updated Law Society Practice Note - 29 October 2009

- Updated Mortgage fraud practice note - 15 April 2009

- Anti-Terrorism Practice Note 19 July 2007

 

Previous guidance now replaced by the above 

- Mortgage fraud practice note – 18 March 2008

- Law Society Practice Note - updated 22 February 2008

- Law Society Practice Note - 17 December 2007

- Law Society Draft Practice Note in force from 3 September 2007 to 13 December 2007

- Law Society Guidance on SOCPA amendments to POCA

- Guidance for Company/Commercial Solicitors

- Guidance for Conveyancing Solicitors

- Guidance on private client work

- Guidance on P v P

- Money Laundering Pilot Guidance 2004

 

Other guidance and resources

- Financial Sanctions List 
  A regularly updated consolidated list of targets listed by the UN, EU and UK under legislation 
  relating to current financial sanctions regimes, together with the latest financial sanctions notices.

- Assets Recovery Agency

- CIA World Leaders (Politically Exposed Persons - 'PEPs')

- FATF Guidance for Legal Professionals 2008

- FATF (Financial Action Task Force) guidance 2007

- FSA Handbook

- JMLSG money laundering guidance: revised Nov 2007

- JMLSG (Joint Money Laundering Steering Group)

- Law Society Money laundering page: guidance, news and links

- SOCA -Serious Organised Crime Agency
       Guide to completing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
       SAR online reporting system

- Transparency International Global corruption perceptions index 2005

- US Treasury list of specially designated nationals & blocked persons

 

Guidance for other professions and jurisdictions

- The Bar Council Guidance on Money Laundering Regulations

- The Bar Council Guidance on POCA 2002 - revised January 2008

- ICAEW - The Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales

- ICAEW - guidance on privilege

- ICAEW - confidentiality of money laundering suspicions

- CCAB guidance

- The Chartered Institute of Taxation & the Association of Taxation Technicians

- Auditing Practices Board - interim guidance for Auditors (revised)
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

- Council for Licensed Conveyancers guidance note

- The Institute of Legal Cashiers & Administrators

- Law Society of Scotland

 

Links for identification of companies

- London Stock Exchange list of companies

- Worldwide Companies Registries (link via Companies House)

- EU list of regulated markets under MiFiD