Sentences with phrase «largest civil fraud»

Patrick has been involved in some of the largest civil fraud claims in recent years including the JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshelnniy Bank v Pugachev litigation on applications for # 1.17 billion freezing orders, search orders, passport orders and committal applications and the $ 2 billion LIA v Societe Generale litigation, involving allegations of bribery and undue influence.

Instructed in some of the largest civil fraud actions heard in England in recent years, including the US$ 1 billion Fiona Trust litigation and CNA Insurance Company Ltd v Willis Ltd (both of which are referred to in greater detail in the Commercial Litigation section below).

She also acted on the high profile BTA v Ablyazov litigation, one of the largest civil fraud claims to have ever come before the English courts.

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He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

However, currently if there is a wealthy individual or large corporate subject to civil fraud, they can come to us directly anyway.

Sophia Purkis of Fladgate LLP advises claimants and defendants in relation to large - scale civil fraud claims, often in conjunction with parallel criminal proceedings.

Bushell, a specialist in large - scale international commercial litigation and founder of Herbert Smith's Russian dispute resolution practice, is top ranked for civil fraud work by Chambers and Partners.

He has experience acting as a junior in large - scale civil fraud, unfair prejudice petitions and insolvency litigation both in England and in overseas jurisdictions.