Sentences with phrase «injunction over the assets»

What is believed to be England's first worldwide freezing injunction over the assets of «Persons Unknown» who are accused of committing large - scale, international financial fraud via the internet, has been obtained by London law firm Cooke, Young & Keidan.

Taken together, the majority of the Divisional Court found that these circumstances justified the imposition of a worldwide Mareva injunction over his assets abroad.

The application is for a freezing injunction over assets located outside England and Wales, partly in aid of domestic proceedings (partnership dissolution proceedings) and partly in aid of foreign proceedings (proceedings in Jersey re claims for 50 % interest in shareholdings).

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Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

Further injunctions have been granted over some of their assets and they are also subject to onerous disclosure orders.

Her Honour, in adopting the modern English law approach, found that a court's unlimited in personam jurisdiction over a defendant justifying the issuance of a worldwide Mareva injunction did not depend on whether a defendant had assets in the jurisdiction at all.