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30 June 2023 / John Gould
Issue: 8031 / Categories: Features , Profession
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The Law & Regulation of Solicitors: Client Money

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"This is a bible for those who have to show that they keep the AML faith"
Author: Katie Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
ISBN: 9781526524621
Pages: 960
RRP: £125

This book is written with the intention of providing an exploration of the current law and policy of anti-money laundering (AML) in the context of legal professionals holding client money. It is a book intended for those with responsibility for AML compliance, which gives it a large and probably expanding potential readership.

Over-compliance: the right approach?

It is not essentially a law book; it refers to just 13 legal cases. On policy, the author has no doubt that the most rigorous AML requirements are justified, and in her view legal requirements fall short of even a starting point for the right and just level of AML. This is not a book in which the worldwide approach to AML policy is likely to be questioned.

The contrary position (as explored, for example, in Ronald F Pol’s paper ‘Anti-money laundering: The world’s least effective policy experiment? Together we can fix it’, Policy

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