Fraud

Civil Fraud

Recommended as leading set of fraud barristers in Chambers & Partners 2010 and Legal 500 2009, the barristers at 11 Stone Buildings deal with all aspects of civil fraud such as: obtaining urgent without notice relief (freezing injunction; search orders; orders for delivery up of information in electronic form); establishing or challenging the jurisdiction of the English courts in complex international fraud matters; dealing with the matter at trial or arbitration and enforcing any judgment obtained.

Cases involving allegations of fraud cover a wide range of legal areas. Members of chambers working in this area are able to draw on their knowledge and experience of banking and commercial, company and insolvency, property and employment law.

Criminal Fraud and Corporate Crime

We can provide the advice, practical assistance or representation in corporate crime and regulation matters  and throughout all stages of an investigation or prosecution.

We are highly experienced in the field and have acted for clients in a wide variety of business crime cases. Our knowledge and expertise extends to investigations and defence of matters in the following areas:

  • Asset seizure
  • Business fraud
  • Carousel fraud
  • Cartels and Enterprise Act proceedings - OFT
  • Corporate manslaughter
  • Director disqualification
  • Directors and officers liability
  • Environmental law
  • False accounting
  • FSA compliance
  • HMRC – tax and VAT investigations
  • HSE
  • Serious Crime Act
  • Money laundering
  • POCA and SOCA
  • Regulatory investigation
  • Restraining orders
  • SFO investigations
  • Trading Standards

What the Directories Say About us:

Alan Gourgey QC, Tim Penny, Max Mallin, Ian Smith, Nick Parfitt and Iain Pester are all recommended as leading barristers in the area of civil fraud in Chambers & Partners 2010 and/or Legal 500 2009.

Chambers & Partners 2010

Recommended as a Leading Set of Civil Fraud Barristers

The members at 11 Stone Buildings "bring a clever thinking process to complex issues and offer excellent support throughout." Backed by an improved clerking team, they handle fraud cases as part of their general commercial and chancery caseload. Leading the pack here is Alan Gourgey QC, who, having recently emerged from the high-profile EDS and Sky dispute, has now turned his attention to various other pieces of litigation. These include a property fraud involving offshore companies and trusts, a luxury cars fraud and a fraud arising out of a share brokerage contract. He is celebrated for being "excellent on his paperwork, a clear thinker and a pleasure to work with." Max Mallin's former career as a banker assists him greatly in handling financial markets disputes and commercial fraud matters. In court, he is "quick on his feet, bullish and forthright," say interviewees. Lately he has been engaged in Rosenberg v Nazarov, a case relating to damages for conspiracy and breach of fiduciary duty in a partnership and joint venture. Another much in-demand advocate, Nick Parfitt is commended for the support he provides throughout the entirety of a case. He has recently settled a slew of fraud matters, including a carousel fraud case and a shareholder dispute involving breach of fiduciary and contractual duties. Iain Pester's skill belies the relatively short time he has been at the Bar. He is a favoured junior counsel in many fraud matters, and has recently obtained a freezing injunction in a matter that involved cheque fraud. He is rated along with Ian Smith , a former solicitor, whose "commercial, hands-on approach is in tune with clients' goals." He is particularly favoured for his expertise in proceeds of crime and money-laundering matters, and is a frequent writer and speaker on these issues. Smith was recently led in 4 Eng v Harper, securing damages in excess of £8 million. (Civil Fraud, Chamber & Partners 2010)

Legal 500 2009

Recommended as a Leading Set of Civil Fraud Barristers

Alan Gourgey QC of 11 Stone Buildings was also in 4ENG, and is ‘understated, but brilliant ‘. Fraud specialist Max Mallin is ‘strikingly good, thorough, hard working and straight‘. Iain Pester's ‘fluency in Russian has proved helpful in recent fraud cases‘. (Civil Fraud, Legal 500 2009)

Our Fraud Barristers are: