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Brown Rudnick’s Jane Colston considers asset tracing and enforcement across the blockchain in a new article published by Legal Business.
Alan Sheeley and Craig Connal QC of Pinsent Masons LLP review a recent Privy Council ruling that relaxes the restrictions on recovering fraudulent payments through backwards tracing. This article was first published in the Trust Quarterly Review, Volume 13, Issue 4 2015.
Jon Felce of PCB Litigation LLP discusses the increase of fraud in economic crises and how the English legal system is well placed to tackle this.
This article will (i) review the recent legislation, guidance and protocols as they applies to commercial litigation in the High Court (ii) identify some of the key practical challenges for court users and judges, and (iii) raise some (so far) unanswered questions, in particular, whether any or all of the measures that are now being introduced will continue once the pandemic subsides and the courts reopen fully.
Article by Jane Colston (Partner) and Ravinder Thukral (Partner) of Brown Rudnick LLP
Shail Patel discusses the APP ("authorised push payment") fraud and related cyber frauds and how they have featured heavily in the financial and mainstream press lately. These scams involve the victim being tricked into making an instant electronic payment to fraudsters instead of the intended recipient.
Jane Colston and Louise Verrill of Brown Rudnick LLP report on the use of Artificial Intelligence in the insolvency profession. This article was originally published by Eurofenix
Jane Colston speaks to CDR about the importance of asking defendants to disclose virtual currencies, like Bitcoin, in freezing, disclosure or search orders. CDR also reported on Michael Booth QC's recent talk to the CFLA about the role of technology in fraud investigations. First published in: www.cdr-news.com
Commercial Fraud Litigation article discussing current trends. Authors: Jane Colston, Gerald Byrne, Jessica Lee and Joanna Curtis of Brown Rudnick LLP
This article was first published in the IBA Litigation Committee newsletter in September 2019, and is reproduced by kind permission of the International Bar Association, London, UK. © International Bar Association.