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Practice Compliance weekly highlights—26 October 2023

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Published on: 26 October 2023

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Table of contents

Practice Compliance forecast
Practice Compliance forecast as at 24 October 2023
Financial sanctions
Ukraine conflict—OFSI issues General Licence INT/2023/3744968 on legal services
FCDO publishes UK statement on JCPoA Transition Day
AML, CTF & counter-proliferation financing
SRA issues warning notice on client and matter risk assessments
Law Society publishes response to consultation on AML and CTF supervisory regime
Law firm fined almost £13,000 over AML failure
London law firm fined over AML failures

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Article summary

This week's edition of Practice Compliance weekly highlights includes: the latest Practice Compliance forecast, the most recent sanctions updates, an SRA warning notice on AML risk assessments, scam emails relating to practising certificate renewal, analysis of developments to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill and commentary from the ICO on data protection enforcement.

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