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What Fraud Victims Should Know About Recovery from Defrocked Investment Advisors
At our firm, we have handled cases and have ongoing cases wherein the allegations of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and / or negligence were made or have been made against investment advisors who were registered with a professional body such as the OSC, MFDA or IRROC...
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Enforcing Judgments
We have blogged extensively on fraud recovery strategies and related topics in the past. This blog provides basic legal information on enforcing judgments and debt collection. Unless money is frozen at the commencement of a proceeding, judgement enforcement is...
Broken Trust – Assessments to Uncover Frauds by Lawyers
On May 5, 2014, the Toronto Star reporters Kenyon Wallace, Rachel Mendleson and Dale Brazao published an article entitled “Broken Trust” – see http://projects.thestar.com/broken-trust/case-files.html. They state that their Toronto Star investigation found the Law...
Enforcing Criminal Restitution Orders and the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights
We have blogged in the past on recovery for fraud victims on criminal restitution orders – see our blog Coordinating Criminal and Civil Justice for Fraud Victims. Many fraud victims we deal with are of the belief that they are owed a free investigation by the police,...
Enforcing Foreign Judgments in Canada for Fraud Victims
It is well known internationally that the Canadian Criminal Courts are soft on fraud and financial crimes and accordingly fraudsters seek haven in Canada to perpetrate their frauds. Only frauds over $1M in value have mandatory minimum prison sentences. Part of the...
Lessons for Fraud Victims from the Madoff Employee Trial
We have blogged in the past on recovery for fraud victims from the professionals that a fraudster uses to perpetrate his fraud: see our blog: Fraud Victims Often Need to Look to the Fraudster’s Professionals for Recovery. The Madoff case has provided many lessons for...
Why Fraud Victims Should Make an Election Before Pleading Negligence
Fraud, in its most basic form, is theft by lies and omissions. The losses suffered by fraud victims occur because fraudsters misrepresent facts to their victims, or they fail to advise their victims of material facts that would have affected their decision as to...