8 Conclusion
This book is situated in an era of unprecedented scrutiny of the legal profession and money laundering. Such scrutiny has been prompted in part by the UK’s National Risk Assessments in 2015 and 2017, and its mutual evaluation by FATF in 2018. Accompanying this focus is an evolving discourse surrounding the profession’s involvement in laundering, shifting from that of ‘gatekeeper’ to contentious and divisive terms such as ‘professional enabler’. The UK response to the abiding money laundering threat has been to implement a range of AML measures which the legal profession must comply with. It is the challenges surrounding compliance with such obligations that are the subject of this book.
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