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The International Data Insights Report: Trends in international arbitration
Mark Fallmann
9 October 2020
Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q3 2020
A Civil Fraud quarterly round-up (3rd quarter 2020)
25 September 2020
Preventing, detecting and responding to fraud within charities
The Law Society Gazette and Third Sector recently reported that a number of charities, including Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Yorkshire Cancer Research, the British Heart Foundation and the National Trust, issued a claim against a former solicitor, Linda Box. They claim to have been deprived of a legacy gift from a Will of which she was the co-executor. Box was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2017, having admitted to 12 offences of fraud, theft and forgery while working as a senior partner at a firm of solicitors in Wakefield, having stolen approximately £4 million. The fraud is said to have been conducted using a process known as “teeming and lading” whereby money is moved between client accounts to hide a shortfall or theft.
16 September 2020
Court makes Search Order in COVID times
A search order, made pursuant to section 7 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 and CPR Part 25, is one of the most draconian orders the English civil courts can make. No Respondent really wants a search team to enter their premises but because of Covid -19 the search team is even less welcome than usual.
13 July 2020
Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q2 2020
A Civil Fraud quarterly round-up (2nd quarter 2020)
15 June 2020
Back to the drawing board: Do I have to re-plead/re-prove my case?
In a recent case, Ward & Ors v Savill [2020] EWHC 1534 (Ch), the judge had to grapple with the question - can a claimant rely on an earlier judgment granted in one case involving different parties to enable it to bring a new claim against a different defendant without having to re-plead and prove the facts and matters it relied on in the first case?