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News 3rd Apr 2025

Expanding Corporate Criminal Liability: What Does This Mean for Businesses?

News 31st Mar 2025

E-Discovery Software: a Wake-Up Call for Prosecutors?

News 24th Mar 2025

Landmark s.303Z51 POCA Order secures full Crypto recovery for victim of £520,000 crypto scam in what is believed to be the first of its kind.

News 17th Mar 2025

Corporate Fraud Prevention: Companies House to Impose New Identification Requirements

News 9th Mar 2025

New sentencing guidelines for blackmail, to focus on victims

News 6th Mar 2025

The war against counterfeiting: how Private Prosecutions are changing the game.

News 27th Feb 2025

When Does the Clock Start Running? DPP v Jinks [2024] EWHC 3341

News 25th Feb 2025

Conspiracy to defraud: A prosecutor’s guide to the common law and statutory offences

News 20th Feb 2025

Litigating Against ‘Persons Unknown’ – Chirkunov -v- Person(s) Unknown [2024] EWHC 3177 (KB)

News 13th Feb 2025

‘Hard Cases Make Bad Laws’

News 4th Feb 2025

The Beneficial Role of Deposition Witness Summonses in Criminal Proceedings

News 29th Jan 2025

University Investigations and Criminal Justice

News 14th Jan 2025

A Load of Bull(ion) – Analysis of DPP v Surin

News 8th Jan 2025

No “Mediation Privilege” Just Yet – Pentagon Food Group Ltd and Ors v B Cadman Limited [2024] EWHC 2513

News 7th Jan 2025

Account and Crypto Forfeiture Orders – a Reminder of the POCA Civil Forfeiture Regime: The Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall v The Tate Brothers.

News 19th Dec 2024

Government Publishes Guidance on New “Failure to Prevent Fraud” Offence

News 17th Dec 2024

Seizure and Recovery of Cryptocurrency under POCA: Clearer Rules to Follow at Last!

News 3rd Dec 2024

Fighting AI with AI.

News 29th Nov 2024

When does raw data become a hearsay statement? Recent guidance from the Court of Appeal in R v AEB and others [2024] EWCA Crim 1320

News 26th Nov 2024

Government Announces Prison Sentence Reform and Review

News 20th Nov 2024

“I’m Spartacus! – yet another person claiming to be ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, creator of Bitcoin”

News 18th Nov 2024

Norwich Pharmacal Orders and considerations of privilege: Filatona Trading Limited and Oleg Deripaska v Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP[2024] EWHC 2573 (Comm)…

News 30th Oct 2024

The New Payment Services (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Gives Banks More Time to Investigate Potentially Fraudulent Transactions

News 29th Oct 2024

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

News 29th Oct 2024

Scams: The fraud landscape on macro and micro levels.

News 22nd Oct 2024

Crypto ATMs: where old technology meets the new world

News 13th Oct 2024

APP Fraud: Payment Systems Regulator Implements Mandatory Reimbursement Regime.

Media & Events 13th Oct 2024

Elie Taktouk’s default sentence finally enforced: 8-year term imposed for failing to pay a £4.5 million Confiscation Order.

News 4th Oct 2024

Ready, Sett, Stop: lessons from a doomed prosecution under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 in R (DPP) v Northampton Magistrates Court [2024] EWHC 2324 (Admin)

News 27th Aug 2024

Unchallenged evidence cannot be ignored by the court: High Court says ‘yes’ to saving Yosser the dog

News 12th Aug 2024

Served or swindled?

News 23rd Jul 2024

A Witness Summons in Confiscation Proceedings: R (Bakhitr Abbasi) v Asim Siddiqui and Raed Siddiqui [2024] EWHC 1781 (Admin).

News 16th Jul 2024

Victims 4 – 1 Banks: Developments in APP Fraud Litigation

News 16th Jul 2024

PART 5 POCA Orders: Appropriate Forum for Challenging an Account Freezing Order, as considered in R(Mileage Reclaim Ltd) v. North Somerset Magistrates’ Court, HMRC [2024] EWHC 1531 (Admin)

News 16th Jul 2024

A Landmark and Innovative Victory in Crypto Asset Recovery – Default Judgment Triumphs: Sutton v. Persons Unknown

News 2nd Jul 2024

Landmark Court of Appeal Decision: Implications for Investigations into Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains.

News 27th Jun 2024

A Review of the 2024 Annual Fraud Report

News 27th Jun 2024

Can a private prosecution survive the death of the prosecutor? R (Bin Khalifa) v. Alsaqabi.

News 11th Jun 2024

How Public and Private Sector Collaboration Can Recover Stolen Crypto-Assets for Victims

News 3rd Jun 2024

Edmonds Marshall McMahon in Successful private prosecution following “organised, sophisticated, and targeted’ fraud on cancer charity

News 21st May 2024

Recent Developments in the Litigation Funding Industry

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 – The Absent Witness

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

Crypto 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 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?

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