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By: John Binns

John Binns is a partner in the business crime and corporate regulatory department of BCL Solicitors.

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  • Even Farage agrees anti-money laundering laws are weapons of mass distraction

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    Sweeping laws push the burden on to businesses and ultimately consumers, who end up accidentally caught as collateral damage of anti-money laundering laws, writes John Binns.

  • Will the FCA’s new plan mean cannabis companies can come in from the cold?

    Cannabis stocks face a legal minefield to come to the UK

    How does the UK’s legal and financial establishment feel about the cannabis industry? The answer to that has changed significantly over the last few years, to the point that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) now contemplates their listing on the London Stock Exchange. But the legal rules around how to do that are far from [...]

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  • Through the smoke: The legal path to Britain’s cannabis market

    The great and the good of the global cannabis industry (which, for those behind the curve on such things, is no longer a contradiction in terms), are assembling in London for a dazzling set of events under the banner of European Cannabis Week.  Even those who follow the headlines about the industry’s rapidly escalating size [...]

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