Law firm

NCA Legal

NCA Legal is named as solicitors in at least 15 UK judgments from 2015 to 2026, most often in public and administrative law and financial crime and investigations.

15
judgments
6
in the last five years
3
in the Court of Appeal

Practice areas

  • Public and administrative law13
  • Financial crime and investigations8
  • Media, defamation and privacy1
  • Real estate1
  • Trusts, wills and private client1
  • Extradition1
  • Civil liberties and human rights1
  • Civil fraud and asset recovery1

Courts

  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)3
  • High Court12

Counsel most often instructed

  • Andrew Sutcliffe4
  • Jonathan Hall4
  • Tom Rainsbury3

Judgments by year

  • 20263
  • 20250
  • 20243
  • 20230
  • 20220
  • 20210
  • 20202
  • 20190
  • 20181
  • 20171
  • 20161
  • 20154

Cases later courts cite most

Cases NCA Legal acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date Case Cited by
30 Aug 2024
[2024] EWHC 2240 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A disclosure order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 may be set aside only after the court has reviewed the statutory conditions afresh and exercised its…
3

Recent cases

Date Case Cited by
15 Jul 2026
[2026] EWHC 1745 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under CPR 19.2(2), a person affected by an order may be added as a party only where doing so has issue-resolution utility: the court must be able to resolve a…
13 Mar 2026
[2026] EWHC 573 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
On an application to discharge unexplained wealth and interim freezing orders made without notice, the High Court must reconsider the statutory conditions…
20 Sep 2024
[2024] EWCA Civ 1095 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Sections 9 and 10 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 address different requests to foreign authorities. Section 9 is confined to requests to intercept…
1
30 Aug 2024
[2024] EWHC 2240 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A disclosure order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 may be set aside only after the court has reviewed the statutory conditions afresh and exercised its…
3
8 Mar 2024
[2024] EWHC 501 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A property freezing order under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 requires a good arguable case that the property is recoverable or associated property.…
12 Feb 2020
[2020] EWHC 268 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Section 357(2) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 prevents an application for a disclosure order that is in relation to a detained cash, detained property or…
5 Feb 2020
[2020] EWCA Civ 108 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
An unexplained wealth order is an investigative measure. For the politically exposed person condition in section 362B(7)(a) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002…
1
3 Oct 2018
[2018] EWHC 2534 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A court may make an unexplained wealth order where the statutory requirements are met at the investigative stage. A politically exposed person includes a…
1
7 Dec 2017
[2017] EWHC 3116 (Ch) · High Court: Chancery Division
A resulting trust may arise on a gratuitous transfer of land. The presumption remains a starting point and may be displaced by evidence of the parties’…
1
2 Feb 2016
[2016] EWHC 719 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A person subject to an activated term of imprisonment imposed in default of payment of a confiscation order may be unlawfully at large for the purposes of a…
1
11 May 2015
[2015] EWHC 1284 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
Under section 345(5) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the default period for compliance with a production order is seven days. A shorter period, including…
21 Jan 2015
[2015] EWHC 357 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court
A prohibition order under Part 4A of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005 may be made or continued without disclosure of…

Based on judgments published by The National Archives (Find Case Law) in which NCA Legal is named as solicitors, counted under the firm's current name. The figures are minimums: not every judgment names the solicitors, and a judgment is counted only when we are confident who acted. The selection of cases listed here is limited, and does not include family, criminal or anonymised cases. Firm details include data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. zoomLaw is independent and not connected with NCA Legal. Something wrong or missing? Tell us. All law firms.