News & Events
News & Events
Oliver Powell and Tim Green have contributed to Millington and Sutherland Williams on The Proceeds of Crime, fifth edition, OUP (2018). Oliver was responsible for chapters on bribery & corruption, investigations and the seizure and recovery of cash. Tim was responsible for chapters on money laundering and disclosure of suspicious transactions. Millington and Sutherland Williams on The Proceeds of Crime provides a definitive guide to all aspects of the law concerning the recovery of the proceeds of crime in England and Wales. It provides an easily navigable step-by-step approach that considers how the legislation is geared to ensuring that criminals do not benefit from their crimes financially, as well as detailed coverage of every stage of the confiscation process. Outer…
External Publications 16 Feb, 2018
Oliver Powell, together with Claire Rawle, Partner Blake Morgan LLP, were both invited to speak at UK Harbour Masters Association Autumn 2017 Seminar. Their talk, entitled ‘Health & Safety – the cost of getting it wrong’, drew upon their considerable experience of investigations and prosecutions in health and safety matters. Other speakers at the seminar included: Captain Forkanul Quader of Maritime & Coastguard Agency; Jon Beckett and Miles Featherstone of Port of London Authority; Andrew Kelly of Department for Transport; Helen McCormick of CTRL Marine Solutions Ltd; Scott Baker of Svitzer UK; Caroline Price of Royal Haskoning DHV; Steve Guest of Kongsberg Norcontrol Ltd; and Brett Ward of Fendercare Ltd. The seminar was attended by approximately 150 people, including port…
News 22 Nov, 2017
The Health and Safety Lawyers Association (“HSLA”) spring seminar programme attracted over 150 delegates across three separate seminars this year. James Leonard, Paul Rogers, Tim Green and Oliver Powell of Outer Temple Chambers provided key talks across the three seminars. They addressed the impact of the new sentencing guidelines and the increased prosecution by the HSE of individuals, to audiences in Bristol, London and Birmingham, with a Glasgow seminar scheduled for June. Links to the slides used in the Birmingham event on 25 April can be found here and here.
Events 3 May, 2017
Oliver Powell, led by the Attorney General of Anguilla, appeared before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the matter of the Superintendent of Prisons & Another v Hamilton [2016] UKPC 23. The Respondent, Neville Hamilton, was dismissed as the Deputy Superintendent of Prisons by the Governor of Anguilla, to whom charges that the Respondent had been in neglect of duty under s.2(d) of the Code of Discipline had been referred by the First Respondent. The power to refer charges to the Governor under s.7(2) of the Code was successfully challenged by the Respondent in judicial review proceedings before High Court of Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Anguilla Circuit. The High Court quashed both the decision to refer the…
News 8 Aug, 2016
Oliver Powell, instructed by Pinsent Masons, appeared for Sulivan Shipping Services Ltd (‘the Charterer’) in one of the largest fisheries investigations ever undertaken in the Falkland Islands. Oliver was retained throughout the investigation and the court proceedings, attending a number of hearings before the Court in the Falklands Island in December 2015 and by video link in 2016. Background: following a catch verification in Stanley in June 2015, it was discovered that Mr Baston (‘the Master’) of the FV Figaro had failed to declare 118,562.35kg of hake and had over declared 133,012.50kg of rock cod. The Master, Freiremar S.A. (‘the Owners’) and the Charterer were sentenced with fishing without a licence contrary to s.167 of the Fisheries (Conservation and Management)…
News 13 Jul, 2016
Oliver Powell, led by Senior Treasury Counsel, was instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service in confiscation proceedings that emanated from convictions in relation to the sale of fake bomb detectors. On 23 April 2013 Mr McCormick was convicted of three counts of fraud contrary to s.7(1) FA 2006 and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Owing to the fact that Mr McCormick had benefitted from his criminal conduct the Court directed that there be confiscation proceedings. At the hearing this week, HHJ Hone QC ordered that the benefit of Mr McCormick’s offending amounted to a sum in excess of £21 million and that Mr McCormick had realisable assets totalling nearly £8 million. The realisable assets included a number of properties, motor…
News 17 Jun, 2016
Outer Temple Chambers is pleased to announce that Oliver Powell has recently joined us. Ranked in both Chambers UK and The Legal 500, Oliver strengthens our Business team and takes instructions on legal matters on the regulation of business activity and commerce. He practises in asset forfeiture and civil recovery, commercial fraud, health, safety and environmental law, indirect tax and maritime regulatory law. Acting for multinationals, SMEs, private individuals and some government departments, Oliver was junior counsel in the legal team that was awarded the GLS Prosecution Team of the Year 2015. He is also a regular contributor to Millington and Sutherland Williams on the Proceeds of Crime (Fourth Edition), OUP (2013) and Westlaw UK Insight (online encyclopedia of UK…
News 4 May, 2016
Oliver Powell was invited to speak at HMRC’s biannual FPU Conference. His talk was concerned with restraint and confiscation pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Other speakers included inter alia Dave Standish & Nigel Spare of KPMG and Peter Maxwell & Sally Dallow of Bond Dickinson. The talk was attended by over 40 HMRC employees, including; lawyers, accountants and financial investigators. Outer Temple continues to lead the way in asset recovery and financial crime, both domestically and internationally.
News 14 Apr, 2016
