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The fourth edition of this bestselling guide to money laundering
compliance has been updated to take account of significant
developments in legislation and best practice including: - the
replacement of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 with the Money
Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information
on the Payer) Regulations 2017 - the replacement of the Law
Society's practice note with the Legal Sector Affinity Group's
guidance - the introduction of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 - the
National Crime Agency succeeding the Serious Organised Crime
Agency. User-friendly and practical, the book provides an overview
of the substantive law and guidance on reporting suspicions,
managing money laundering procedures and spotting money laundering
activities in a solicitor's practice, as well as the full text of
the Anti-Money Laundering Guidance for the Legal Sector, making it
an essential resource for ensuring compliance.
This book provides an empirically grounded, in-depth investigation
of the ethical dimensions to in-house practice and how legal risk
is defined and managed by in-house lawyers and others. The growing
significance and status of the role of General Counsel has been
accompanied by growth in legal risk as a phenomenon of importance.
In-house lawyers are regularly exhorted to be more commercial,
proactive and strategic, to be business leaders and not (mere)
lawyers, but they are increasingly exposed for their roles in
organisational scandals. This book poses the question: how far does
going beyond being a lawyer conflict with or entail being more
ethical? It explores the role of in-housers by calling on three key
pieces of empirical research: two tranches of interviews with
senior in-house lawyers and senior compliance staff; and an
unparalleled large survey of in-house lawyers. On the basis of this
evidence, the authors explore how ideas about in-house roles shape
professional logics; how far professional notions such as
independence play a role in those logics; and the ways in which
ethical infrastructure are managed or are absent from in-house
practice. It concludes with a discussion of whether and how
in-house lawyers and their regulators need to take professionalism
and professional ethicality more seriously.
Examines the outsized influence of jurors on prosecutorial
discretion Thanks to television and popular media, the jury is
deeply embedded in the American public's imagination of the legal
system. For the country's federal prosecutors, however, jurors have
become an increasingly rare sight. Today, in fact, less than 2% of
their cases will proceed to an actual jury trial. And yet, when
federal prosecutors describe their jobs and what the profession
means to them, the jury is a central theme. Anna Offit's The
Imagined Juror examines the counterintuitive importance of jurors
in federal prosecutors' work at a moment when jury trials are
statistically in decline. Drawing on extensive field research among
federal prosecutors, the book represents "the first ethnographic
study of US attorneys," according to legal scholar Annelise Riles.
It describes a world of legal practice in which jurors are
frequently summoned-as make-believe audiences for proposed
arguments, hypothetical evaluators of evidence, and invented
decision-makers who would work together to reach a verdict. Even
the question of moving forward with a prosecution often hinges on
how federal prosecutors assume a jury will react to elements of the
case-an exercise where the perspectives of the public are imagined
and incorporated into every stage of trial preparation. Based on
these findings, Offit argues that the decreasing number of jury
trials at the federal level has not eliminated the influence of the
jury but altered it. As imaginary figures, jurors continue to play
an important and understudied role in shaping the work and
professional identities of federal prosecutors. At the same time,
imaginary jurors are not real jurors, and prosecutors at times
caricature the public by leaning on stereotypes or preconceived and
simplistic ideas about how laypeople think. Imagined jurors, it
turns out, are a critical, if flawed, resource for introducing lay
perspective into the legal process. As Offit shows, recentering
laypeople and achieving the democratic promise of our legal system
will require renewed commitment to the jury trial and juries that
reflect the diversity of the American public.
Strategies for effective problem-solving and decision-making are
efficient ways for professionals to solve the moral dilemmas that
confront them in their daily practice. Feelings of wellbeing and
positive outcomes, often impeded by the failure to make decisions,
can result when strategies are developed from psychological
theories and positive mindsets. Ethical Problem-Solving and
Decision-Making for Positive and Conclusive Outcomes is a pivotal
reference source that synthesizes major psychological theories to
show that any moral dilemma can be solved by using the correct
positive mindset based on psychological theory and superimposing a
basic ethical template to reach a conclusive decision. While
highlighting topics such as cultural identity, student engagement,
and education standards, this book is ideally designed for clinical
practitioners, psychologists, education professionals,
administrators, academicians, and researchers.
Today's practitioners and researchers are looking, now more than
ever, at the ethical issues that are raised through the practice of
social work and social services. As such, it is crucial that they
are up-to-date on the latest data on how to address, manage, and
overcome ethical issues in their practice. Ethical Issues in Social
Work Practice is a pivotal reference source for the latest research
on the role of moral values within social work and the ethical
dilemmas that arise in the profession. Highlighting extensive
coverage among a variety of applicable perspectives and themes,
such as governing principles of social work practice, ethical
analysis of social work cases, and individual and social
responsibility in social services, this book is ideally designed
for professionals and researchers working in the field of social
work and social services as well as academics and upper-level
students seeking cutting-edge research on ethics in the practice of
social work.
Ethics in Public Administration: Understanding Ethics, Corruption,
and Public Policy provides students with a timely and valuable
collection of articles, essays, and case studies regarding ethical
challenges, expectations, and opportunities in public
administration. The collection begins with an introduction to the
foundations of ethics in public administration and explores the
definition and meaning of ethics as a concept. In later chapters,
students read about the relationship between ethics and the law, as
well as the delicate interplay between ethics, public service,
public careers, and Constitutional practice. Additional sections of
the anthology examine corruption in government and the ethical
dimensions of decision making. Each chapter presents readers with
an ethical dilemma to spark critical thought and self-reflection,
an introduction to the featured readings, and a case study to
demonstrate the real-world implications of topics addressed within
the chapter. Providing valuable insight into complex contemporary
issues, Ethics in Public Administration is an ideal resource for
courses in public administration.
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