Anita Clifford

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Anita Clifford has a financial crime practice and represents individuals and corporates in criminal proceedings and civil proceeds of crime matters including account forfeiture. She also has a wealth of experience handling money laundering investigations brought by regulators and in discreetly advising leading law firms, corporates and individuals on sensitive POCA and sanctions issues. Dual-qualified, Anita was a solicitor in Australia from 2011 before joining the Bar of England & Wales in 2017. Her recent work includes acting for a corporate on an account forfeiture order in excess of £1 million, defending the CEO on a high profile bribery prosecution, advising insurers on multi million pound trade credit claims and the implications of the UK Russian sanctions regime and advising on Suspicious Activity Reporting in the context of a commercial property transaction relating to a landmark property. In 2024 she was part of the counsel team that successfully represented the appellant in the cutting-edge case of WUC v NCA [2024] EWCA Civ 715 which considered the effect of POCA on tainted supply chains for the first time. She is a contributor to Lloyds Law Reports on Financial Crime.