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News 9th Apr 2024

A Step in the Right Direction: New Bill Gives Banks More Time to Investigate Potentially Fraudulent Transactions

News 27th Mar 2024

Understanding the Use of Witness Statements in Civil and Criminal Proceedings

News 27th Mar 2024

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” – the Online Safety Act 2023’s new communications offences are now in force.

News 3rd Mar 2024

Shattering the glass ceiling and surviving the glass cliff

News 8th Feb 2024

Image-Based Sexual Abuse and the Fight Against Deepfakes.

News 6th Feb 2024

Cracking the Code: The Irreplaceable Role of FIRE Practitioners in the AI Era:

News 6th Feb 2024

Going the whole hog: “pig-butchering” cryptocurrency schemes likely to remain a significant concern in 2024

News 23rd Jan 2024

“It’s a civil matter”. The Law & Troublesome Tenants.

News 9th Jan 2024

The impact of AI on everyday scams.

News 9th Jan 2024

“I yam what I yam”: When does a ‘Without Prejudice’ marking mean what it says?

News 18th Dec 2023

Costs in Private Prosecutions: The Touchstone for Reasonableness – R (Allseas Group SA) v Paul Sultana [2023] EWHC 2731 (SCCO)

News 7th Dec 2023

Carolina Cabral contributes to Expert Witness Journal

News 7th Dec 2023

Is anyone safe from APP fraud?

Media & Events 22nd Nov 2023

EMM at Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2023

Media & Events 4th Oct 2023

Tamlyn Edmonds and Kate McMahon attend Istanbul Arbitration Week

News 27th Sep 2023

Bridie Burnett published in the Lancaster Law School Blog

Media & Events 21st Sep 2023

Ashley Fairbrother will be speaking at C5’s Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Conference, Paris: 26th – 27th October 2023

News 15th Aug 2023

Fraud Strategy in Focus: a Little Less Conversation…

News 14th Aug 2023

EMM helps to secure conviction of Jason Wilson Tasker of Historical Child Sexual Abuse Charges

News 26th Jul 2023

Reform of the identification doctrine: a welcome improvement to the law on corporate criminal liability.

News 26th Jul 2023

How safe is my house?

Media & Events 20th Jul 2023

Ashley Fairbrother gives insightful webinar for C5 on “How Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Practitioners are Leveraging Al and More Tech for a Winning Strategy”

Media & Events 6th Jul 2023

Crypto-Currency Fraud Claims and the Evolution of English Law: Insights from HHJ Pelling KC’s Talk

News 27th Jun 2023

‘Are you serious?’ – The Court’s approach to the limit of genuine Part 36 offers

News 21st Jun 2023

Proposed Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence set to apply to some, but not all.

News 7th Jun 2023

The private sector: an untapped resource in the fight against fraud

Media & Events 2nd Jun 2023

Cryptoasset fraud: innovations in digital asset recovery

News 1st Jun 2023

Ashley Fairbrother is speaking at C5 Communications Crypto and Digital Asset Fraud & Recovery Conference June 2023

Media & Events 1st Jun 2023

Jack Walsh, Special Counsel and Nikos Keim, Senior Associate speak at LAWorld AGM Conference May 2023

News 23rd May 2023

R v Abbasi – successful private prosecution of £7m Fraudulent Property Investor

Media & Events 9th May 2023

‘The system is broken’: The UK government has unveiled its new Fraud Strategy for 2023

Media & Events 4th May 2023

We take a look at Suella Braverman’s Telegraph article “We will stop the text scam misery”, and discuss how private prosecutions can support the government’s crackdown on fraud

Media & Events 14th Apr 2023

R v Patel Conclusion

News 13th Apr 2023

Edmonds Marshall McMahon welcomes new legislation to tackle fraud

News 22nd Mar 2023

Court of Appeal Endorses use of Evidence Obtained through US Court Proceedings

News 13th Mar 2023

Looking at Benefit: the Proceeds of Crime Act and the Law Commission’s Report on Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime After Conviction

News 22nd Feb 2023

R v Frederic Marino, Aurelien Bessot And Yoshiki Ohmura: a Crucial Lesson in Time Limits for the Postponement of Confiscation Proceedings

News 17th Feb 2023

Crypto ATMs: where old technology meets the new world

News 15th Feb 2023

In re Smith: Making a Proprietary Claim to Trump a Confiscation Order

News 13th Feb 2023

Real Life Romance Fraud in the Digital Age

Media & Events 7th Feb 2023

Tamlyn Edmonds speaks at Thought Leaders4 FIRE event February 2023

News 7th Feb 2023

Trust me, I’m a developer – Tulip v Van der Laan and ors

News 6th Feb 2023

Court Declines Nigeria’s Bid for Glencore Compensation Order

News 2nd Feb 2023

The expansion of the UKs “Failure to Prevent” legislation

News 26th Jan 2023

Company Officers Behaving Badly

News 24th Jan 2023

Macmillan Cancer Support and EMM shortlisted for the Public / Private Partnership Excellence Award as part of the Public Sector Counter Fraud Awards 2023

News 16th Jan 2023

Fraud: can the “steady and constant decline” be reversed?

News 12th Jan 2023

Are green and sustainable investment products really as green as they say?

Media & Events 3rd Jan 2023

Jack Walsh speaks at Welsh Fraud Forum Annual Conference

News 5th Dec 2022

Private Prosecution results in 12 year prison term for London Solicitor

News 21st Nov 2022

EMM in The Times Best Law Firms 2023

Media & Events 2nd Nov 2022

Lawyers should know about Crypto – Kate McMahon speaks at the IBA conference in Miami

News 12th Oct 2022

R (Macmillan Cancer Support) v Annette Wilcox

News 3rd Oct 2022

Private prosecutions: the compensatory principle applied to disbursements

News 28th Sep 2022

EMM AND THE CYBER HELPLINE – COLLABORATION STATEMENT

News 5th Aug 2022

Kate McMahon ranked as Global Elite Thought Leader and Thought Leader for GIR- Asset Recovery 2022

News 22nd Jun 2022

New measures introduced in the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022

News 24th May 2022

Macmillan Cancer Support v Toogood [2022] EWCA Crim 633: the Court of Appeal clarify Momodou and explain the consequences of not having a fully pleaded Defence Statement

Media & Events 6th May 2022

Kate McMahon speaking at 18th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference

Media & Events 6th May 2022

Kate McMahon and Jane Guthrie speaking at the 34th ICC FraudNet Conference

News 1st Apr 2022

Kate McMahon, Tamlyn Edmonds, Andrew Marshall & Jack Walsh contribute to Q&A guide to business crime in the UK

News 11th Mar 2022

Kate McMahon contributes to 2022 FraudNet Global Report

News 13th Jan 2022

The Queen (on the application of Asim Siddiqui and Raed Siddiqui) v. Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Bakhtiar Abbasi Interested Party [2021] EWHC 1648 (Admin)

News 5th Jan 2022

Ashley Fairbrother promoted to Partner at Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Media & Events 21st Dec 2021

Kate McMahon published in The Accountant Online

Media & Events 16th Dec 2021

Kate McMahon quoted in ‘i-news’

News 6th Dec 2021

Can Norwich Pharmacal Orders be used to seek disclosure of mobile phone records to prove a fraud?

News 4th Nov 2021

EMM included in The Times Best Law Firms 2022

Media & Events 11th Oct 2021

Ashley Fairbrother Speaks at Charity Fraud Awareness Week: Taking Action in Fundraising Frauds

News 11th Oct 2021

Elie Taktouk sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraud offences

Media & Events 7th Oct 2021

Kate McMahon published in PrimeResi

News 3rd Sep 2021

EMM response to Justice Committee Call for Evidence

News 5th Aug 2021

EMM secures conviction of Businessman Elie Taktouk of 11 counts of Fraud

News 22nd Apr 2021

EMM succeeds in application for judicial review of a Police force’s handling of a complaint of serious corruption

News 7th Apr 2021

Investigative Costs in a Private Prosecution: Football Association Premier League and Sports Information Services Ltd v Lord Chancellor [2021] EWHC 755 (QB)

Media & Events 22nd Mar 2021

Safeguarding Private Prosecutions

News 5th Feb 2021

The RSPCA and Private Prosecutions

Media & Events 15th Jan 2021

Ashley Fairbrother speaking on expert panel at Young Fraud Lawyers Association event: ‘Double Trouble: Civil Claim, Private Prosecution or both?’

Media & Events 14th Jan 2021

Ashley Fairbrother speaking at the International Fraud Conference 2021, on ‘How UK Private Prosecutions Deliver Justice in Charity Fraud Cases’

News 23rd Dec 2020

Jack Walsh co-authors Blackstone’s Guide to the Sentencing Code 2020

Media & Events 11th Dec 2020

Marie-Claire Amuah speaks at Thought Leadership Webinar

Media & Events 10th Dec 2020

Confiscation Order of £343k made against Gerard Lawless

Media & Events 23rd Nov 2020

DIVERT recognised at the annual Met Excellence Awards

News 23rd Oct 2020

Partners Ranked. Band 1 Financial Crime: Private Prosecutions in London, Chambers and Partners

News 28th Jul 2020

Covid pandemic and fraud epidemic

News 30th Jun 2020

Kate McMahon comments on ‘potential fraud’ as car dealer Lookers reveals £19m hole

News 20th Jun 2020

Tamlyn Edmonds & Kate McMahon feature in the Insurance Age discussing the use of private prosecutions in the fight against insurance fraud

News 24th Mar 2020

COVID-19 – (Remote) Business as usual at EMM!

News 11th Feb 2020

Kirsty Pappin wins ‘Practice Manager of the Year’!

News 7th Feb 2020

Edmonds Marshall McMahon secure landmark decision from the High Court to provide guidance on the recoverability of private prosecutors’ costs

News 9th Jan 2020

Two new forces join Edmonds Marshall McMahon

News 10th Oct 2019

Chambers & Partners 2020

News 8th Nov 2018

Edmonds Marshall McMahon – Rankings

News 18th Oct 2018

EMM secure the conviction of Financial Controller Gerard Lawless for £1.5 million Theft

News 27th Jul 2018

EMM successfully secure convictions in the largest corporate private prosecution

News 16th Feb 2018

R v Andrew John Camilleri (2018) – An IVA Proposal and War of Attrition

News 22nd Dec 2017

Russian and British national guilty of elaborate $1 million fraud following private prosecution

News 26th Oct 2017

Edmonds Marshall McMahon ranked in The Chambers High Net Worth 2017 Guide

News 11th Oct 2017

EMM shortlisted for Specialist Law Firm of the Year in The British Legal Awards 2017