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Sanctions insights

Last updated: 11/11/2025

Links to insights and debate on sanctions, responses across the world from the legal profession and more:

Sanctions Podcast featuring Dr Tom Keatinge, Anna Bradshaw and Nick Turner: (The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank and has a series of podcasts and articles on sanctions.Recorded as the tragic events in Ukraine unfold, it considers the central plank of the West’s response to Russia’s aggression - sanctions. Tom Keatinge is joined by RUSI Associate Fellows and legal experts Anna Bradshaw of Peters & Peters and Nick Turner of Steptoe & Johnson. They discuss the wider challenges related to sanctions and their use, what these mean in the context of the current crisis, and whether or not it’s time to rethink our approach to sanctions, given that, all too often, they seem to fail to meet their intended goals.)
EU to create freeze and seize task force
Statement by the President of the Law Society, Michelle Ní Longáin
Statement regarding Ukraine made by the President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and former President of the Law Society, James MacGuill
Statement of the International Bar Association
EU Commission Overview, Timeline and FAQs
STEP Article “EU prohibits provision of services to Russian-linked trusts”
Mason Hayes Curran Article “Trust Services and Ukraine Sanctions”
Central Bank of Ireland FAQs - Financial Sanctions - Frequently Asked Questions
Department of Justice AML Compliance Unit Notifications on Sanctions to TCSPs:

STEP’s Russia-Ukraine Conflict Resource - https://www.step.org/about-step/russia-ukraine-conflict
Urgent notice to solicitors advising in relation to certain trusts
Arthur Cox article - Sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia and Belarus
Arthur Cox article - EU Sanctions against Russia and potential implications for Irish pension schemes [LSI1]

Article on June CCBE/ELF Webinar
Report on June CCBE/ELF Webinar
Dr Justine Walker Article "Staying the course on Russia sanctions- more resources and alignment are essential" Published on Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence on July 15, 2022
July 2022 Red Alert "Financial Sanctions Evasion Typologies: Russian Elites and Enablers" issued by the UK's Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Task Force (JMLIT)
Law Society of England and Wales Article July 2022 on JMLIT Red Alert