Kennedy Talbot
Year of Call: 1984
Specialist practice areas: Asset Forfeiture, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Regulation/Compliance
Email: ktalbot@furnivallaw.co.uk
Kennedy Talbot is a leading
expert in asset forfeiture, confiscation, money laundering, police powers and
legal professional privilege.
His confiscation and asset forfeiture practice is unusually busy, and he has
appeared in over 700 cases in the Crown Court, High Court, Court of Appeal,
Divisional Court, House of Lords and Privy Council, on behalf of prosecutors
(including the CPS, HM Revenue & Customs, RCPO, SFO, local authorities and
the Department of Health), foreign governments, defendants, receivers and third
parties. He conducts confiscation hearings and appears for those affected by
restraint charging and receivership orders under the Drug Trafficking Act 1994,
Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
Kennedy’s high profile appearances have included five confiscation and related
cases which have reached the House of Lords since 2000, such as Cadman Smith,
the leading judgement on benefit in confiscation cases, and Rezvi and
Benjafield, on the compatibility of confiscation laws with the ECHR.
He also has an extensive practice under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, acting
for the Assets Recovery Agency and respondents in part 5 civil recovery
proceedings in the High Court and part 6 taxation proceedings. In addition, he
has appeared in leading cases on disclosure and consents to act, and regularly
advises financial institutions on making protected and authorised disclosures
to SOCA under POCA 2002 part 7.
Legal professional privilege is another area of considerable expertise for
Kennedy. Here his exceptional track record includes acting in the Cash for
Honours inquiry, the David Mills/Silvio Berlusconi investigation, and the
investigation into former Law Society President Robert Sayer. Civil fraud and
asset tracing cases, particularly those involving freezing orders and other
draconian interim relief, round off his practice.
Kennedy is ranked as a leading junior
in criminal fraud in the Legal 500 (2008/2009).
Kennedy has published and lectured widely in all of these areas. He has been a
member of the New York
bar since 1993.