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UK practice compliance weekly: financial sanctions (OFSI legal services licence), AML/CTF, data protection (Data Bill, scraping), SFO fraud referrals, LSB action on SRA—31 October 2024

Published on: 31 October 2024

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  • Financial sanctions
  • AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing
  • Other financial crime
  • Data protection
  • Other Practice
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Financial sanctions

OFSI issues new Legal Services General Licence INT/2024/5334756

The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and HM Treasury have introduced a successor Legal Services General Licence INT/2024/5334756, commencing as soon as Legal Services General Licence INT/2024/4671884 ends at 23:59 on 28 October 2024. This licence permits a UK law firm or counsel that has provided legal advice to a person designated under the Russia or Belarus regimes to receive payment from that individual without obtaining an OFSI specific licence, provided the conditions in General Licence INT/2024/5334756 are fulfilled. Notable revisions include raised caps for fees and expenses, a limited allowance for payments into non‑UK bank accounts, and clarified treatment of the applicable caps for in‑house lawyers and for directly instructed counsel. See: LNB News 28/10/2024 37.

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