{"id":942,"date":"2025-06-25T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=942"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:50:17","slug":"united-kingdom-law-firm-fined-600-for-breach-of-russian-sanctions-licence-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/25\/united-kingdom-law-firm-fined-600-for-breach-of-russian-sanctions-licence-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom &#8211; law firm fined \u00a3600 for breach of Russian sanctions licence conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawgazette.co.uk\/news\/top-us-firm-admits-breach-of-russia-sanctions-rules\/5123683.article?utm_source=gazette_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=%27NHS+111%27+service+for+justice+could+save+%c2%a372m+%7c+Crown+court+cash+injection+%7c+Rethinking+expenses+insurance_06%2f25%2f2025\">Solicitors Regulation Authority (the &#8220;SRA&#8221;) has fined<\/a> Steptoe International LLP \u00a3600 and given the firm a &#8220;rebuke&#8221; for breaches of the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The breaches are reported to have related to two clients, and involved non-compliance with the conditions of relevant licences granted by OFSI, which is a criminal offence. It is unclear whether this was a general licence or a specific licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The firm self-reported the breaches to the SRA, which accepted that the breaches were the result of &#8220;inadvertent human error&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report makes no mention of any involvement by OFSI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solicitors Regulation Authority (the &#8220;SRA&#8221;) has fined Steptoe International LLP \u00a3600 and given the firm a &#8220;rebuke&#8221; for breaches of the UK&#8217;s Russian sanctions. The breaches are reported to have related to two clients, and involved non-compliance with the conditions of relevant licences granted by OFSI, which is a criminal offence. It is unclear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/06\/25\/united-kingdom-law-firm-fined-600-for-breach-of-russian-sanctions-licence-conditions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;United Kingdom &#8211; law firm fined \u00a3600 for breach of Russian sanctions licence conditions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,2],"tags":[20,12,18,9],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-general","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-fine","tag-russia","tag-united-kingdom"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}