Purpose – This paper seeks to evaluate the Pensions White Paper proposals against down to earth and relatively obvious objectives and criteria; and to suggest some options – no matter how politically difficult – which need to be considered. Design/methodology/approach – The paper assesses...

Four years ago, a partner of one of the City's most eminent law firms expressed to me their concerns at the relatively new interpretation of the 1995 UK money laundering legislation, rendering a criminal offence, the failure by a professional, such as a lawyer, to report a suspicion of overseas...