Sam Whiteley
Sam is an Associate in the Business Crime & Investigations team at Peters & Peters, where he also trained. Before joining the firm, he worked for two years in the litigation team of an international energy company, where he worked on a range of arbitration and litigation, including a large multijurisdictional fraud case with criminal and civil limbs.
Sam has a first-class BA in English from the University of Oxford and a law degree from the University of London. Sam also worked at Macfarlanes LLP, where he assisted on multiple matters with a Russia or CIS element, and went on secondment to alternative investment firm Oak Hill Advisors L.P. to assist them with financial regulatory work.
Sam speaks conversational Spanish and has been published by numerous publications.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2023
Experience
- Shell (Litigation for Europe, Middle East, and North Africa) (2018 - 2020)
- Macfarlanes (Litigation Paralegal) (2017 - 2018)
Membership
- International Forum of Senior Executive Advisers
- Young Fraud Lawyers Association
- Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
Education
- City, University of London (LPC) (2020-2021)
- City, University of London (GDL) (2014-2015)
- University of Oxford (BA in English Language and Literature) (2011-2014)
1 Contributions by Sam Whiteley
PRACTICE NOTES
Private Prosecutions in England and Wales: Restraint, Confiscation and Compensation under POCA 2002 and the Sentencing Act 2020
This Practice Note explores in detail how restraint orders, confiscation proceedings and compensation orders are deployed in private prosecutions.
Restraint orders in private prosecution proceedings
For an overarching guide to the operation, mechanics and effect of restraint orders in general, see: Restraint and confiscation—overview. A restraint order operates to freeze property and to preserve a defendant’s assets so that they remain available to meet any confiscation order imposed following a successful prosecution and conviction. For further background, see Practice Note: Restraint orders—What is a restraint order? Applications seeking restraint orders are made in the Crown Court under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA 2002) and can be pursued before any arrest has occurred and/or before proceedings have commenced (commonly described as pre-charge restraint orders), or later within an investigation or prosecution, including post conviction. POCA 2002, s 40 identifies five circumstances in which the Crown Court may make a restraint order. For additional information, see Practice Note: Restraint orders—Conditions for the grant of a restraint order and Conditions required before a restraint order can be made—checklist, as noted above and within that guidance...
Corporate Crime
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