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You have probably never heard of Hegestratos. It appears he was a simple sea merchant, living around 300BC in Greece. The only reason history records him is he has the dubious honour of having committed the first recorded incident of financial fraud. According to historical records, Hegestratos took out a large insurance policy known as […]
Read more ...A year has passed since the world lost a great legal legend and we at Wilford Smith lost a great leader, mentor, friend and Godfather. Steve’s sudden passing last year had an immeasurable impact. “Smithy” as Steve was so widely and affectionately known, had for so very long been such a reliable constant in a […]
Read more ...Much has been reported in the media about the extent of Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) fraud it opened in May 2020. Indeed there is every reason to believe that efforts are now being ramped up to take action against those suspected of BBLS fraud, especially at the higher end of offending. In one recent […]
Read more ...Everything You Need To Know About Financial Cybercrime Cybercrime encompasses any criminal activity which relies on Information and Communications Technology (‘ICT’) devices, including computers, mobile phones, and the internet. It can then be broken down further into crimes that are enabled and crimes that are dependent on ICT devices. Cyber-dependent crimes are those which only […]
Read more ...A Part 36 offer is a powerful tool designed to encourage parties to settle early, thus reducing costs and court time. Part 36 offers are usually employed strategically and regardless of whether you are offeror or offeree, advice from an expert civil litigation lawyer is essential. This is because if a Part 36 offer is […]
Read more ...In September 2020, a major leak known as the ‘FinCEN Files’ exposed the UK’s significant role in facilitating global corruption and money laundering. It showed that Western banks were complicit in moving money around the globe for oligarchs, terrorists, drug lords, and criminal gangs. The following month, the UK Treasury Committee opened an inquiry into […]
Read more ...Redundancies are something that we hope you never have to go through but ultimately for most businesses sometimes they are completely unavoidable. One of the most notable things to remember about redundancies is that the employee usually receives a payment. For this reason, it can often result in misinterpretations. It is often mistaken that a […]
Read more ...Generally, sickness absence refers to a period where an employee is absent from work by reason of incapacity. This normally means that a person is not fit, as a result of illness or injury, to perform their normal duties. Most employees will, at some point or other during the year, spend some time off work […]
Read more ...Bars To Extradition As explained in the first part of this series, extradition is the formal process where one country asks another to return a person in order to stand trial or to serve a sentence. Because extradition strikes at the heart of citizenship and Statehood, in that it denies a person the cherished right […]
Read more ...What is Extradition? Extradition is the formal process of a State surrendering one of its citizens to be tried in a Court of law or punished by a foreign State in which they committed crimes. The extradition process enables governments to bring fugitives abroad to justice, but it can be fraught with political tension, even […]
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