Dean Phillips
Kangs Solicitors has a specialist department conducting work in the following areas: Proceeds of Crime (POCA), Confiscation, Asset Forfeiture, Cash Seizure, Freezing Orders and Restraint Orders In the 2017 edition of Chambers & Partners, the leading Directory for the legal profession, Kangs Solicitors has once again been recognised as one of the top ten firms in […]
24/01/17
Dean Phillips and Colin Parker of Kangs Solicitors have recently concluded complex Confiscation Proceedings on behalf of our client which were brought in connection with a significant NHS Fraud. The case was successfully concluded with the Prosecution accepting that: foreign assets should be deemed not realisable assets nominally held jointly by the client did in […]
20/10/16
Dean Phillips of Kangs Solicitors represented a client sentenced in respect of VAT and Excise fraud in relation to the importation of £5 million worth of high end watches. As our client had admitted the offence from the outset, Kangs Solicitors sought to ensure that he was placed in the most favourable position possible when […]
19/10/16
Following a review into enforcement action conducted by the Treasury in November 2015, the Financial Conduct Authority (‘FCA’) has set out a number of proposals on how it is to enact the recommendations made as a result of that review. Depending on the outcome of the review and the forthcoming consultation paper it is proposed […]
23/08/16
On 1st June 2015, new law came into force – The Serious Crime Act 2015. Tim Thompson of Kangs Solicitors examines the effects of this piece of legislation on POCA 2002, specifically, on the part of Section 1, entitled: “Determination of extent of defendant’s interest in property”. Section 1 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 […]
02/08/16
