The following are seminars & webinars, panel events & debates, podcasts, interviews, and evidence sessions in which Maya Lester KC and Michael O’Kane discuss sanctions issues.
- Global Sanctions Webinars hosted by Maya Lester KC and Michael O’Kane
Webinar “Coming off sanctions lists: de-listing by courts & governments – UK, EU, and US approaches”, 8 May 2024. Chair: Michael O’Kane. Speakers: Maya Lester KC, Malcolm Birdling, Erich Ferrari and Andrew Adams
Webinar “Sanctions & Gaza: how are banks & aid agencies navigating terrorist financing and sanctions?”, 13 December 2023. Chair: Maya Lester KC. Speakers: Sophie Huve, Luma Zitani, Chloe Cina and Erica Moret
Webinar with UK Government on ownership and control, 20 November 2023. Chair: Michael O’Kane. Speakers: Maya Lester KC, Chloe Cina, Daniel Drake and Beth Davies
Webinar “Sanctions on China: where are we heading?”, 2 May 2023. Chair: Maya Lester KC and Michael O’Kane. Speakers: David Wolber, Cindy Yu and Chloe Cina.
Webinar on UK sanctions with Giles Thomson, Director of OFSI, 6 September 2022. Chair: Michael O’Kane. Speakers: Maya Lester QC and Giles Thomson. UK Finance overview and transcript of the webinar here.
Webinar “What next on sanctions if Russia invades?”, 27 January 2022. Chair: Michael O’Kane. Speakers: Maya Lester QC, Adam Smith and Chloe Cina.
- Webinars, speeches & panels with Maya Lester KC and Michael O’Kane
Fordham International Law Journal Symposium 2025, panel on “The Limits of Sanctions” (from 06:40:00). Chair: Professor Andrew Kent. Speakers: Maya Lester KC, Dr Nathanael Tilahun and Andrew C. Adams, 21 February 2025
City & Financial Global, Economic Sanctions Summit keynote speech by Maya Lester KC, 29 January 2024
Brick Court Chambers, Sanctions Soirée with Maya Lester KC (description of event), 11 May 2023
UK Finance, Sanctions School webinar series with Maya Lester KC in Episode 1 “What are Sanctions?” and Episode 3 “Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018”, 5 October 2022.
Tortoise, “Welcome to Londongrad: why does London still attract so much dirty money?”. Speakers: Michael O’Kane, Bill Browder and Dame Margaret Hodge MP, 3 March 2022
Collyer Bristow, Financial Services webinar: Whistleblowing, sanctions regimes and launching a digital currency with Maya Lester QC on UK, EU & US sanctions (16:42-34:21 minutes and Q&A), 7 July 2021
Volterra Fietta, Virtual Seminar: the UK and EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime” with Maya Lester QC and Michael O’Kane, 25 March 2021
Brick Court Chambers, Webinar: New UK Sanctions Regime with Maya Lester QC, 25 January 2021
Global Sanctions Forum, Lessons Learnt from Recent Enforcement Cases, Maya Lester QC, 22 October 2020
C5, Conference Webinar: on the UK’s new sanctions regime post-Brexit and points of divergence with the EU Maya Lester QC, 17 June 2020
Thomson Reuters Legal Europe, The Legal Debates: Sanctions are fair and effective. Speakers: Maya Lester QC, The Rt Hon. the Lord Darling of Roulanish, Alistair Campbell and Ben Emmerson QC, 4 September 2019
Brick Court Chambers, Harneys, Debevoise, International Sanctions Seminar, Maya Lester QC on the “EU sanctions perspective”, July 2018 (blog post)
Brick Court Chambers, Sanctions after Brexit with Maya Lester QC, 21 June 2018 (blog post)
Hague Centre for Law and Arbitration, Symposium on Unilateral Sanctions and International Law, Presentation on sanctions cases in the EU Court by Maya Lester, 19 July 2013
- Podcasts with Maya Lester KC and Michael O’Kane
Podcast Rosinus on Air, Criminal Compliance Podcast, “Overview of UK sanctions compared with EU and US sanctions” with Maya Lester KC and Michael O’Kane, 10 February 2025
Podcast Harneys: Expert Review, “Economic sanctions: Russia, Brexit, and beyond” with Maya Lester KC, 31 January 2022
Podcast RUSI’s Financial Crime Insights Podcasts, “FATF’s Unintended Consequences: The Future” with Michael O’Kane, 8 October 2021
Podcast Brick Court Chambers, “Stepping outside the law” with Maya Lester KC and Lord David Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC, 25 March 2021
Podcast RUSI’s Suspicious Transaction Report Podcasts, “Getting the Partnership Right” with Michael O’Kane, 1 March 2021
Podcast RUSI’s Suspicious Transaction Report Podcasts, “The Other Side of Sanctions” with Maya Lester KC and Michael O’Kane, 29 June 2020
Podcast BIICL (British Institute of International and Comparative Law), “The Sanctions and Money Laundering Act 2018” with Maya Lester KC, July 2018
- Interviews & Articles by Maya Lester KC
Maya Lester KC Interview with City & Financial Global, 12 January 2024
Maya Lester QC on BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, BBC Newshour, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio 5 Live and Times Radio, 22 and 23 February 2022
Maya Lester QC Interview on CGTN on US sanctions on Iran, 22 October 2020
Maya Lester QC Interview on Al-Jazeera, “Is Trump’s Maximum Pressure Campaign Working?”, 21 September 2020
Maya Lester QC, Foreword to “Sanctions in Europe”, World ECR Books, 3 February 2020
Maya Lester QC, “The Kadi Case”, with David Vaughan CBE KC, July 2018
Maya Lester QC, “The Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018”, WorldECR 70, June 2018
Maya Lester QC, “Economic sanctions have been a foreign policy tool of choice for some time”, Counsel magazine, February 2017
Maya Lester QC Interview with C5, “What are the four things you would change about the EU’s sanctions regimes if you could?”, 4 November 2016
Maya Lester QC Interview on Monocle Radio on EU Syria Sanctions, 28 October 2016
Maya Lester QC Interview on The Report, “Are Russian sanctions dangerous for Britain?” (BBC Radio 4), 9 April 2015
Maya Lester QC Profile in Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2014
Maya Lester QC Profile in Foreign Policy, 2 May 2014
Maya Lester QC Interview on New York public radio on Russia sanctions, 6 May 2014
- Maya Lester KC Evidence to Parliamentary Committees
Maya Lester KC’s evidence to the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry on UK sanctions strategy, 4 February 2025 (blog post)
Maya Lester KC’s evidence to the House of Lords European Affairs Committee inquiry on the Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on UK-EU relations, 24 October 2023 (blog post)
Maya Lester QC’s evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry on the Future of UK Sanctions Policy, 2 April 2019
Maya Lester QC’s evidence to the House of Lords EU External Affairs Sub-Committee inquiry on sanctions policy after Brexit, 20 July 2017 (blog post)
Maya Lester QC’s evidence to the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs review on Canada’s Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act and Special Economic Measures Act, 2 November 2016 (blog post)
Maya Lester QC’s evidence to the House of Lords EU Justice Sub-Committee inquiry on the legality of EU sanctions listings, 11 October 2016 (blog post)