David Walbank KC launches CrimeCast series: ‘The Top 25 Financial Crime Cases of 2024’

David Walbank KC has released the first five video case reviews, including three videos this week, in this new CrimeCast series. The remainder of the reviews will be released between now and June.

R (World Uyghur Congress) v National Crime Agency [2024] 1 WLR 4532

Can a money laundering investigation or a civil recovery investigation be commenced where no specific ‘criminal property’ or ‘recoverable property’ has yet been identified? Does property cease to be ‘criminal property’ once it is acquired for adequate consideration?

Vneshprombank LLC v Bedzhamov [2024] 1 WLR 4674

Are the Russia Sanctions (EU) Exit Regulations 2019 engaged where there is ‘reasonable cause to suspect’ that an entity is owned or controlled by a designated person or are they only engaged if the entity is in fact owned or controlled by such a person?

R (Abbasi) v Southwark Crown Court [2025] 1 WLR 334

Where a private prosecution had resulted in convictions and the Crown Court had then issued witness summonses in the course of the subsequent confiscation proceedings, did it have jurisdiction to do so and was that decision amenable to judicial review?

Juul v Chief Constable of Dyfed-Powys Police [2024] 4 WLR 16

Did either the passage of time since the making of a Serious Crime Prevention Order or the stated intention of the person subject to the order to move permanently abroad amount to a change of circumstance allowing the High Court to discharge the order?

R v Abbasi (Bhaktiar) [2024] 4 WLR 45

Where the combined effect of a director’s disqualification order and a pre-existing disqualification undertaking exceeded the 15-year statutory maximum under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, was that ultra virus the statute?

David Walbank KC specialises in the trial of white-collar crime. He also writes the ‘Crime Brief’ column for New Law Journal and is the founder and presenter of [www.crimecast.law] which currently hosts more than 250 free-to-view video case reviews of recent judgments.