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In brief: If you provide legal services to an organization client in respect of a financial transaction, you must verify the organization’s identity within 30 days. You must verify the instructing individual’s identity too. The 30-day leeway does not apply to the instructing individual (Rule 3-105(1)).
Rule - Timing of verification of organizations: Law Society Rule 3-106.
Practice Resource - Anti-Money Laundering Webinar: See in particular 1:27:00.
Rules - Definitions of "client", “financial transaction”, and “money”: Law Society Rule 3-98.
Rules - Exemptions to verification requirements: Law Society Rules 3-99 and 3-101.
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