Bond Solon Reviews

Very informative and enjoyed the style and delivery

Excellent course well delivered by Liane.

Liane was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter, she didn't merely read through the manual but made the learning relevant and interesting by relating it specifically to our job roles and/or her past experiences which were really interesting. Liane made what could have been a dry and boring subject come to life! Thank you!

Richard was an excellent trainer. Very engaging with great experience to share with us, that was also relevant to our role.

The trainer was excellent and able to relate her experiences in the workplace/life to the course which made the course very interesting. There were attendees from different disciplines and she was able to adjust the content to be able to support all of our needs. A good day.

I think this course would be better suited to new confiscatory rather than experienced investigators that attend court regularly already. If it was completed after a month of the initial R&C course students could use the s.16 from their training to be cross examined on. If this to be rolled out to experienced FI’s as well then days 1 to 3 need to condensed.

Much of the material in the initial three day workbook is already well known to most HMRC financial investigators as it is covered in detail in the R&C training course. This part of the course could be shortened. For example, the review of what information can be found from bank statements, court layouts and the basic elements of POCA legislation. It may be helpful to amend this part of the training to focus on areas where recent case law is influencing confiscation cases. If the legislation needs to be rehearsed it would be helpful to vary the presentation to include more interactive sessions or scenario based work. The material on criminal procedure rules was very useful and should continue to be included. Running the first part of the course on Teams does not create a natural interactive environment and this part of the training would benefit from being hosted in a classroom setting. It feels like the course should become the next step after the R&C training has been completed. Each student could refine the s.16 they draft in this training and could be used for the cross examination. From memory, the case from the R&C training covers most of the areas that we are likely to be tested on in cross examination and could likely be modified to cover any other areas required.

Training with Sue is always engaging and I feel that I have learnt so much from her over the course of my development. This training was really helpful and enabled me to reflect on my skills as a chair and how I can develop them further. Thank you Sue.

Great to have time and space to stop, reflect and review what i do each day. Every day is a school day, so we never stop learning as things move on.

The trainer made the subject interesting with lots of practical 'real world' examples. The additional course materials the trainer provided were also useful and supported the learning.