Our members act for individuals, companies, receivers, financial institutions, third parties, foreign requesting states, and specialist prosecuting authorities including the SFO, FCA, and CPS. We regularly advise foreign governments, sovereign wealth funds, and international public bodies on the registration and enforcement of foreign forfeiture orders.

Members of chambers assisted in drafting the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and continue to advise and train judges, prosecutors, and investigators worldwide. Members are also responsible for the leading textbook, Mitchell, Taylor & Talbot on Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime.

Our work in this area covers restraint and confiscation, civil recovery, unexplained wealth orders, account freezing orders, production orders, and the interaction between confiscation and LPA receiverships, insolvency, and family proceedings. We also advise on the money laundering regulations, suspicious activity reporting, sanctions obligations, legal professional privilege, and the overlap between POCA and commercial litigation.

Representative cases

Close cases

Operation Diazoma

Civil Recovery Claim over property obtained in a fraud on the Kuwaiti Health Authority

Hamilton v Katung [2025] EWHC 1401 (KB)

Civil Recovery – Beneficial interest in property recovered from unlicensed money exchange business.

R. (on the application of Fresh View Swift Properties Ltd) v Westminster Magistrates' Court [2023] 1 W.L.R. 3321

High Court judicial reviews of forfeiture of unlicensed money service business proceeds

R (On Application of the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police) v City of Salford Magistrates’ Court ex parte Sarwar and Sons Knitwear Limited (2008)

Judicial review relating to civil cash seizures and the meaning of property ‘obtained by unlawful conduct’.

Ahmad & Fields (SC)

Apportionment and enforcement of multi-handed cases

Ahmet v Tatum [2024] EWCA Civ 255; [2024] 1 W.L.R. 3630

Proceedings begun in the High Court Chancery Division by a third party claiming a beneficial interest in a property subject to a confiscation order were struck out as abuse of process.

DPP v Su and Ors.

The first UWO obtained by the DPP over London real property valued at £85m

NCA v Persons Unknown and Barclays Bank (2022), 25 November (Business and Property Court)

Acting for bank in civil recovery of £51m.

DPP v Qian, Wen and 2,594 applicants (the "BlueSky" case) (2025 and ongoing)

Acting for office holders in £3bn crypto asset seizure and management

Acting in civil asset-recovery proceedings, including for the defence in recovery actions and offshore enforcement actions.

Wang v Tianjin Lantian Gerui Electronic Technology Co Ltd [2024] EWHC 2059 (Ch)

As well as representing the DPP and the Trustee holding the bitcoin, acting for many thousands of Chinese victims of an investment scheme that transpired to be a Ponzi fraud. They are advancing a proprietary claim to a significant share of Bitcoin currently worth $5.5 billion that is held by the UK authorities pursuant to a property freezing order issued by the High Court.

Director of Public Prosecutions v Surin [2025] EWHC 10 (KB)

Acting for DPP where summary judgment was granted on a claim for a civil recovery order in respect of Bitcoin held in an overseas crypto exchange by a UK national living in Dubai.

R (on the application of Mileage Reclaim) v NSMC and HMRC [2024] EWHC 1370 (Admin) (and ongoing)

Judicial review in HMRC account freezing order and now compensation application against HMRC

R. v Haden (Mark) [2024] EWCA Crim 344; [2024] 1 W.L.R. 4777

Consolidated confiscation appeals re exceptional circumstances to extend confiscation proceedings.

HMRC v PS, THL (a Gibraltar Company)

Intervening third party corporate applicant (s.301 PoCA). Defeated allegation of Directors' corruption.