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Serious consequences for misleading the court
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 28 2012
The long running saga of JSC BTA Bank v Granton Trade Ltd & others, relates to the alleged fraud of a Kazakhstan bank by its former chairman and majority shareholder of $1 billion
Warranty of authority
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- July 22 2009
A solicitor acting for its client is not necessarily impliedly warranting the identity of his client, nor aspects of the underlying transaction, only that he has authority to act on the client's behalf
Marshalling of debts
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- August 22 2011
The equitable doctrine of marshalling applies where there are two secured creditors of the same debtor who are each owed a different debt
Mortgage fraud, who picks up the tab?
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- February 27 2012
Innocent solicitors commit a breach of trust and have to repay to the lender a mortgage advance paid away to fraudsters
Relief for banks and money laundering officers in general
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 24 2012
We first reported on Shah v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Ltd in February 2010 in our alert on reporting under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) (the Act
Tracing claim
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- August 25 2010
Where property is obtained by fraud, equity imposes a constructive trust on the recipient so that the property is recoverable and traceable in equity
No need to disclose names of employees
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- October 31 2011
Where a bank had notified its suspicions of potential money laundering, it did not have to disclose the names of the individual employees who had held those suspicions during the standard disclosure exercise
No relief following breach of trust
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- May 28 2012
Where a fraud is perpetrated in a conveyancing transaction, it is often an innocent party that ends up paying the price
Disclosure under the Proceeds of Crime Act
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- February 23 2009
In Shah & another v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Ltd, the claimants instructed the defendant to transfer several large sums of money
Reporting under POCA - the need for a human process and clear audit trail
- Wragge & Co LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- February 8 2010
The decision of the Court of Appeal in Shah & another v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Ltd (HSBC) will give lenders some cause for concern
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- Workarea - Litigation
- Workarea - White Collar Crime
- Workarea - Banking
- Jurisdiction - United Kingdom
- Author - Greg Standing