The Association of Corporate Service Providers’ seminar on Thursday January 15th 2015 will be with UK barristers Jonathan Ashley-Norman and Simon Farrell QC, both of Three Raymond Buildings, Grays Inn.
Their talk, ‘State Control of Corporate Conduct: The Colliding Worlds of International Civil and Criminal Liability’ will cover civil and criminal aspects of directors’ duties; corporate – especially financial – conduct; banking and tax enforcement; and dealing with fraud and state enforcements in those fields.
Jonathan Ashley-Norman is a specialist in law enforcement in a corporate setting, defending, prosecuting and advising those ensnared in the complexities of business crime. He has advised and defended people from all walks of corporate life and all manner of businesses, from oil traders to corporate raiders, from mobile phones to mobile homes, from rural industrial waste to city centre Compulsory Purchase Orders. He is Standing Counsel to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and a member of the Attorney General's A List of Prosecutors, and consequently is instructed to prosecute in the most serious of cases.
His criminal work leads him to other tribunals. Recently he has appeared in the High Court, the Lands Tribunal, the Employment Tribunal and the VAT tribunal. He has acted and advised in various insolvency proceedings and Company Director Disqualification proceedings.
Simon Farrell QC is recommended by The Legal 500 and Chambers UK 2014 as a leading Silk and is described as ‘an exceptionally bright lawyer’ and a ‘very good advocate’. After his appearance in a case for which he received an award he was praised by the Director General of SOCA ‘for exemplary duty to the Court and outstanding advocacy’. He is acknowledged as an expert in corporate crime, commercial and tax fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering and confiscation. He also has expertise in international cross border commercial disputes in which these issues arise. He advises on a wide range of commercial/civil and criminal issues in these areas in High Court, arbitral, Crown Court and Appellate proceedings. He is frequently consulted in cases with an international dimension including those involving commercial disputes, extradition and mutual assistance and in restraint, receivership and civil/cash recovery proceedings under Part V of the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Sponsored by Dougherty Quinn the seminar will be at the Upper Hall, Loch Promenade Church, Douglas with registration at 12noon for a 12.30pm prompt start. Subject to the number of questions and contributions from the audience the session is expected to finish at around 1.30pm.
For bookings contact Antonia King, aking@acsp.co.im.
