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A Novel Norwich (Tracing) Order in the Context of a Bank Account Phishing Fraud
The focus of our firm’s investigation and law practice is fraud recovery. We only act for victims of fraud. In this context, we frequently file applications for “tracing” orders – referred to “Norwich” orders in the civil law context, and “production” orders in the criminal setting.
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Crowdfunding and Other Private Venture Capital Ideas for Fraud Recovery
In one of our earlier blogs, we discussed Options for Funding Fraud Recovery Litigation. This blog discusses third party litigation funding together with a relatively new concept known as “crowdfunding.” The concept of crowdfunding is a recent phenomenon that...
Options for Funding Fraud Recovery Litigation
At the 2013 International Financial Crimes Investigators Conference hosted by the Toronto Police Fraud Squad this year, a speaker from TD Bank discussed the threshold loss numbers required before they would engage their external lawyers or instruct their internal...
Legal Information For Fraud Victims
What Fraud Victims Should Know About Using Evidence Obtained by Hacking
The massive law firm server hack that resulted in the leak of documents that came to be known as the Panama Papers brought significant media attention to the kind of information that can be obtained from secured databases that may assist the victims of fraud in...
What Fraud Victims Should Know About Fraud at Equity Part II – Why Defining Fraud is Important
In March 2015, we published a blog post entitled Why Defining Fraud is Important to Fraud Victims. We now provide an update to that earlier publication following the May 2017 release of the decision in Lee v. Transamerica Life Canada, 2017 BCSC 843 . Why...
What Fraud Victims Should Know About Recovery Through The Civil Remedies Act
At Investigation Counsel PC, we receive inquiries from fraud victims, often through the internet, requesting information on alternatives to traditional civil recovery due to the cost of private litigation. Recently we received an inquiry from lawyers in California as...
What Fraud Victims Should Know About Fraud by Omission
Promissory Note and Other Unsecured Loan Cases We often receive inquiries from people who have loaned money without formal security, only to find that the person they loaned the money to have used their money for purposes other than they discussed, have refused to pay...
What Fraud Victims Should Know about Bankruptcy and the Assignments and Preferences Act
There are often multiple victims in investment fraud cases, and sometimes some victims, in their desperation for recovery, attempt to have their claims given preference over those of other victims. This blog tells the story of how the Courts may deal with victims...
What Fraud Victims Should Know About a Fraudster’s Charter Rights
We have often cautioned fraud victims against relying on Canada’s criminal justice system to obtain a recovery. See our blog post What Fraud Victims Should Know About Problems with Criminal Restitution Orders In July 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada placed another...