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SFO guidance on co-operation: more carrot than stick?
Louise Hodges
Alun is a partner in the Criminal Litigation team and specialises in serious or complex financial crime, proceeds of crime litigation and corporate investigations. He has particular knowledge and experience of issues surrounding corporate crime and deferred prosecution agreements.
Alun is a highly experienced criminal lawyer. He joined Kingsley Napley from the public sector where, over a twenty-six year career as a government lawyer and public prosecutor, he worked in a wide variety of roles including General Counsel at the Serious Fraud Office, the Crown Prosecution Services’ Head of Organised Crime, its Head of Proceeds of Crime and Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office’s Head of Asset Forfeiture Division. He also worked as a prosecutor in central London and a lawyer in the Attorney General’s Office. He therefore brings to the firm and his clients a deep understanding of the prosecutor’s perspective.
Publications and press highlights
- When justice takes a holiday - Quoted in Law360, September 2019
- SFO guidance on co-operation: more carrot than stick? - PLC Magazine, August 2019
- Economic Crime Plan for 2019-2020 - Quoted in The Law Society Gazette, GIR and Commercial Dispute Resolution Online, July 2019
- DPAs: good deals or a two-tier system? - Quoted in the Times, June 2019
- UK is failing in the fight against money laundering - Quoted in The Times, March 2019
- Featured in The Times, No-deal is a backwards step for solving crossborder crime, February 2019