Eldwick Law have significant experience of investigating, initiating, and defending claims of fraud.
In any fraud matter, it is vital that you quickly and effectively get to grips with the details of the case and then control the pace of the dispute. Our team of specialist fraud lawyers are adept at analysing a case and offering our clients dynamic, but risk based solutions at an early stage.
When advising claimants, we are adept at locating assets which cross borders and currencies. We work quickly to protect assets, including by obtaining worldwide freezing orders (Mareva injunction), search orders (anton piller), and disclosure orders. We then police these orders, through correspondence, and in the event of non-compliance, bring applications, as well as claims for contempt of court.
When advising defendants, we work to quickly analyse fraud claims, in particular where the claimant has obtained interim relief, such as a freezing order, to ensure that they have complied with the duty of candour and followed the correct procedure. We have experience of setting aside injunctions at the return date, right through to resisting enforcement action in contested contempt actions.
Representative matters:
- Acting for a Latvian company in bringing civil and criminal contempt proceedings as a result of the Defendant failing to abide by the terms of a freezing order. Following a committal hearing, we obtained a prison sentence against the Defendant of 15 months.
- Defending civil and criminal contempt proceedings on behalf of a very high net worth Chinese national, arising out of the policing of freezing injunctions and representations as to his capacity to litigate. The proceedings arose out of arbitration and litigation proceedings in Mainland China and Hong Kong.
- Acted in fraud proceedings over several high value London properties, and brought freezing injunctions post-judgment
- Acted for London based export finance company, which was the sole shareholder of various Kazakh subsidiaries which held valuable mining licences to drill for rare earth metals in Central Kazakhstan. Obtained freezing orders and orders for delivery up of mineral samples against the Defendant, said to be worth in excess of £1 billion
- Defending a legal professional (solicitor) in multi-million pound claims for fraud; advising on applications to set to vary/set aside freezing injunctions and a criminal restraint order
- Acted for a very high net worth Croatian national in obtaining freezing injunctions and orders for delivery up of a number of high value Rolls Royce classic cars in claims exceeding £10 million.