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Acclaim for Martha’s Rule - but when will maternity services be included?
Kirsty Allen
18 November 2020
Directors’ communications with their solicitors: perhaps not as privileged as you think (Part 2)
In the recent case of Barrowfen Properties Ltd v (1) Girish Dahyabhai Patel (2) Stevens & Bolton LLP (3) Barrowfen Properties II [2020] EWHC 2536 (Ch), the High Court extended the iniquity exception to breaches of a director’s statutory duties.
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)