Lonsdale v National Westminster Bank Plc

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Neutral Citation[2018] EWHC 1843 (QB)
Date2018
Year2018
CourtQueen's Bench Division

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2 cases
  • Tam Sze Leung And Others v Commissioner Of Police
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 14 April 2023
    ...v National Westminster Bank plc, supra; Shah v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 31; Lonsdale v National Westminster Bank plc [2018] EWHC 1843; see also Crown Aim Ltd v UCO Bank [2020] HKCFI 212 which concerned a bank’s decision to suspend a customer’s account due to investigations......
  • Tam Sze Leung And Others v Commissioner Of Police
    • Hong Kong
    • Court of Appeal (Hong Kong)
    • 14 April 2023
    ...v National Westminster Bank plc, supra; Shah v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 31; Lonsdale v National Westminster Bank plc [2018] EWHC 1843; see also Crown Aim Ltd v UCO Bank [2020] HKCFI 212 which concerned a bank’s decision to suspend a customer’s account due to investigations......
6 firm's commentaries
  • Russians, Sanctions And SARs: Are The UK Banks Getting It Wrong?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 24 August 2023
    ...of money laundering specifically. To date there has been one legal challenge concerning SARs in Lonsdale v National Westminster Bank [2018] EWHC 1843 (QB). There the court did order the bank to disclose to a customer the suspicious activity reports it had sent to the NCA which resulted in t......
  • UK Anti-Money Laundering Authorities Report Record Numbers Of Reports
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 20 November 2019
    ...to 2,015 in 2017/18 (equivalent to 8.9 per cent of all DAML SARs filed). See, for example Lonsdale v National Westminster Bank PLC [2018] EWHC 1843. The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific...
  • UK anti-money laundering authorities report record numbers of reports
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 13 November 2019
    ...to 2,015 in 2017/18 (equivalent to 8.9 per cent of all DAML SARs filed). See, for example Lonsdale v National Westminster Bank PLC [2018] EWHC 1843. Judith SeddonChris StottTom Jackson function JDS_LoadEvent(func) { var existingOnLoad = window.onload; if (typeof window.onload != 'function')......
  • Barrister wins right to see his bank’s suspicious activity reports
    • United Kingdom
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    • 1 April 2019
    ...v National Westminster Bank [2018] EWHC 1843 (QB) (18 July A bank was ordered to disclose, to a customer, suspicious activity reports (SARs) that the bank had sent to the National Crime Agency (NCA) at the time of freezing the customer’s bank accounts. The bank’s arguments concerning confid......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Banks’ vulnerabilities to money laundering activities
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Journal of Money Laundering Control No. 23-1, January 2020
    • 15 January 2020
    ...of suspicious activity report”,Journal ofBanking Law, October2007, Vol. 124, pp. 794-809.Lonsdale v NationalWestminster Bank plc (2018), EWHC 1843(QB).Marria, V. (2018), “The EU’s5thanti-Money laundering directive: What does it mean?”, Forbes 13September 2018, available at: www.forbes.com/.......