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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

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News 27th Mar 2024

Understanding the Use of Witness Statements in Civil and Criminal Proceedings

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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.

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Media & Events 5th Mar 2024

Judicial Review of dismissal of Appeal against conviction – Rex (on the Application of Lehram Capital Investments Limited) v Southwark Crown Court, Cyrith Holdings Ltd Interested Party [2023] EWHC 3190 (Admin)

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News 3rd Mar 2024

Shattering the glass ceiling and surviving the glass cliff

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News 8th Feb 2024

Image-Based Sexual Abuse and the Fight Against Deepfakes.

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News 6th Feb 2024

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

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News 6th Feb 2024

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

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News 23rd Jan 2024

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

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News 9th Jan 2024

The impact of AI on everyday scams.

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News 9th Jan 2024

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

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News 18th Dec 2023

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

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News 7th Dec 2023

Carolina Cabral contributes to Expert Witness Journal

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News 7th Dec 2023

Is anyone safe from APP fraud?

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Publications 20th Oct 2023

Snapshot: Absent Witnesses

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News 27th Sep 2023

Bridie Burnett published in the Lancaster Law School Blog

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News 15th Aug 2023

Fraud Strategy in Focus: a Little Less Conversation…

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News 26th Jul 2023

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

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News 26th Jul 2023

How safe is my house?

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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”

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Media & Events 6th Jul 2023

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

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News 27th Jun 2023

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

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News 21st Jun 2023

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

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News 7th Jun 2023

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

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Media & Events 2nd Jun 2023

Cryptoasset fraud: innovations in digital asset recovery

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News 1st Jun 2023

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

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Media & Events 1st Jun 2023

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

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Media & Events 9th May 2023

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

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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

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Media & Events 14th Apr 2023

R v Patel Conclusion

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News 13th Apr 2023

Edmonds Marshall McMahon welcomes new legislation to tackle fraud

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News 22nd Mar 2023

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

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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

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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

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News 17th Feb 2023

Crypto ATMs: where old technology meets the new world

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News 15th Feb 2023

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

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News 13th Feb 2023

Real Life Romance Fraud in the Digital Age

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News 7th Feb 2023

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

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News 6th Feb 2023

Court Declines Nigeria’s Bid for Glencore Compensation Order

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News 2nd Feb 2023

The expansion of the UKs “Failure to Prevent” legislation

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News 26th Jan 2023

Company Officers Behaving Badly

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News 16th Jan 2023

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

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News 12th Jan 2023

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

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News 12th Oct 2022

R (Macmillan Cancer Support) v Annette Wilcox

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News 3rd Oct 2022

Private prosecutions: the compensatory principle applied to disbursements

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News 22nd Jun 2022

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

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News 1st Apr 2022

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

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News 11th Mar 2022

Kate McMahon contributes to 2022 FraudNet Global Report

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Publications 18th Feb 2022

Defamation, free speech and the criminal law

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Publications 10th Feb 2022

Can a judge reject evidence that has not been controverted? – Griffiths v TUI UK Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1442

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Publications 28th Jan 2022

Ticket Touts Beware: the Prosecutors are coming

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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)

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News 6th Dec 2021

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

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Publications 11th Nov 2021

Tamlyn Edmonds and Ashley Fairbrother published in PLC Magazine

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News 3rd Sep 2021

Publications 7th May 2021

EMM Spring newsletter

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Media & Events 22nd Mar 2021

Safeguarding Private Prosecutions

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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’

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Publications 28th Oct 2020

As Amazon grows, so do its brand protection challenges

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Publications 16th Oct 2020

Companies and employees beware: the Bribery Act 2010 nearly a decade on – how has this strict legislation performed, and how might this affect the middle manager?

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Publications 17th Jun 2020

Malicious Facebook post results in £15,000 damages – is a malicious Facebook post also a criminal offence?

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Publications 27th May 2020

Is Cryptocurrency Property?

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Publications 20th May 2020

Fast global fiscal response in a crisis

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Publications 30th Apr 2020

Romance Fraud in Covid-19: Just Swipe Right

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Publications 30th Apr 2020

COVID-19 Pension Frauds

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Publications 14th Apr 2020

I have been the victim of a Coronavirus scam

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Publications 14th Oct 2019

The Private Prosecutors: How to Catch a Fraudster

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Publications 5th Jun 2019

Global Fraud and Corruption – the results, how businesses are responding and what can we do about it?

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Publications 30th May 2019

Nohow or contrariwise?

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Publications 5th Feb 2019

Are the sands of trust law shifting?

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Publications 24th Jan 2019

Private Prosecution of International Criminal Offences

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Publications 4th Jan 2019

Is a Norwich Pharmacal Order a mechanism to obtain evidence to support a private prosecution? FCFM v Hargreaves & others [2018] EWHC 3075 (QB)

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Publications 27th Jun 2018

Private Prosecution: the Duty of Candour when Applying for a Summons

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Publications 27th Jun 2018

Private prosecutions: The investigator’s view

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Publications 27th Jun 2018

How to Protect my Registered Design Rights from Infringement?

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Publications 5th Feb 2018

Review of multiple causes of action (Holyoake and another v Candy and others)

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Publications 7th Nov 2017

An Approach to Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crime: The Prosecutors

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Publications 27th Oct 2017

The end of the Ghosh direction is on the cards

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Publications 25th Oct 2017

Campaign justice: crowdfunding for private prosecutions

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Publications 3rd Oct 2017

Joint Public and Private Prosecution Secures 4 Year Prison Sentence for Employee Theft

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Publications 11th Aug 2017

Bringing private prosecutions for the sale of ‘grey goods’ R v M; [2017] UKSC 58,

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Publications 6th Jul 2017

Confiscation and compensation orders following private prosecutions (R v Somaia)

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Publications 5th Jul 2017

Fraud is now the most commonly experienced crime in England and Wales, but has been overlooked by government, law enforcement and industry

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Publications 9th Jun 2017

Ketan Somaia v Regina (on a prosecution by Murli Mirchandani) [2017] EWCA Crim 741 – Confiscation Orders obtained by Private Prosecutors

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Publications 10th May 2017

Quarterly update on Freezing Injunctions

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Publications 10th May 2017

The Decision to Prosecute, the Discretion to Prosecute and the Code for Crown Prosecutors

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Publications 10th May 2017

Key Issues from the Draft Money Laundering Regulations 2017

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Publications 10th May 2017

Arbitration and Fraud

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Publications 10th May 2017

Quarterly Update on Trust Litigation

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Publications 28th Mar 2017

Grey Goods and Trade Mark Infringement: Private Prosecution

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Publications 27th Mar 2017

A Suggestion For The Consultation On Corporate Economic Crime

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Publications 22nd Mar 2017

The Data Protection Act: a new route for beneficiaries to obtain information

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Publications 14th Mar 2017

The Prosecution of Corporate Entities: Proposals for reform

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Publications 8th Mar 2017

The notification injunction after Candy v. Holyoake

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Publications 13th Feb 2017

Do class action lawsuits exist in the United Kingdom? Not really! Should they?

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Publications 6th Feb 2017

Private prosecutions: a global affair?

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Publications 1st Feb 2017

Quarterly update on Freezing injunctions

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