News: Rachel Barnes KC

Former Company Director sentenced for £12m bribery scheme

Carole Ann Hodson was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment and ordered to pay almost £4.5m in confiscation at the Wolverhapmton...

28th June 2019

Account Freezing Order (AFO) discharged

On 11 June, Westminster Magistrates' Court discharged an AFO imposed on funds received from Iran and the Metropolitan Police...

12th June 2019

Former Company Director pleads guilty to £12M bribery scheme

A former owner of UK-based ALCA Fasteners has pleaded guilty at Walsall Magistrates Court to bribing a purchasing manager to...

31st May 2019

UN Security Council delists Tunisian national from sanctions list

Mr Nassim Saadi, a Tunisian national, has been removed the global ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida sanctions list by the United...

16th May 2019

US, EU and UK Sanctions

Rachel Barnes was a guest lecturer at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston, the first and...

8th April 2019

OFSI gears up to use its civil enforcement powers

Rachel Barnes, Patrick Hill & Genevieve Woods have recently published an article on UK sanctions enforcement, originally...

7th March 2019

Sanctions enforcement set to increase

Rachel Barnes, Patrick Hill and Genevieve Woods have co-authored an article on sanctions in the January 2019 issue of...

8th February 2019

Sanctions: Challenging Designations

Rachel Barnes has authored a Practice Note for Practical Law (Thomson Reuters). Rachel looks at UN, EU and UK-autonomous...

25th June 2018

‘Trading Blows’: Rachel Barnes is quoted in The Law Gazette sanctions article

Rachel Barnes is quoted in 'Trading Blows', a feature article in The Law Society Gazette on the practical fallout of new US...

23rd May 2018

High Court judgment in Iraqi Civilians v Ministry of Defence

Mr Justice Leggatt today handed down judgment in the cases of four lead claimants, which were heard in two separate trials....

14th December 2017