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Tom Harper and Aimee Donnellan June 12 2016, 12:01am, The Sunday Times Neil Mitchell, who is trying to mount a private criminal prosecution against RBS executives, with girlfriend Sarah Morgan yesterday FRANCESCO GUIDICINI Senior executives at the Royal Bank of Scotland are facing…
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Category: Bank Crime, Caught telling lies, Clifford Chance RBS review April 2014, Financial Conduct Authority, Fred Goodwin, Full disclosure required, GRG, Lawrence Tomlinson, LEGAL NEWS, Malpractice, Neil Mitchell, RBS, RBS GRG, Rory Cullinan, Ross McEwan, Serious Fraud Office, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester, Top Stories, Treasury Select Committee, Uncategorized, West Register
Tags: banking fraud, Chris Sullivan, civil litigation, Clifford Chance Report, criminal evidence, Derek Sach, evidence, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Fred Goodwin, GRG Action Group, Malpractice, RBS, RBS Action Group, RBS GRG, RBS Malpractice, RBS West Register, Rory Cullinan, ROYAL Bank of Scotland, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester
Reuters Business News | Fri Jun 26, 2015 4:59pm BST (Reporting by David Milliken; Editing by Mark Heinrich) Bank of England Governor Mark Carney speaks during the Bankers and Merchants Dinner at the Masion House in London, Britain June…
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Category: All Banks, Bank Crime, Bank Of Scotland, Barclays, BOS, Caught telling lies, Clifford Chance RBS review April 2014, Financial Conduct Authority, Fred Goodwin, GRG, HBOS, HSBC, Ian Fraser, Insurance Fraud, Judiciary calling for action, Lawrence Tomlinson, LEGAL NEWS, Lloyds, Malpractice, Mortgage Fraud, RBS, RBS GRG, Rory Cullinan, Ross McEwan, Serious Fraud Office, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester, Top Stories, Treasury Select Committee, West Register, whistleblowing
Tags: banking fraud, Barclays malpractice, Chris Sullivan, civil litigation, Clifford Chance Report, criminal evidence, Derek Sach, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Fred Goodwin, HSBC Malpractice, RBS Malpractice, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester
Author Huw Macartney Lecturer in Political Economy at University of Birmingham Disclosure Statement Huw Macartney does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has…
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Category: All Banks, Bank Crime, Bank Of Scotland, Barclays, BOS, Caught telling lies, Clifford Chance RBS review April 2014, Financial Conduct Authority, Fred Goodwin, GRG, HBOS, HSBC, Ian Fraser, Insurance Fraud, Lawrence Tomlinson, LEGAL NEWS, Lloyds, Malpractice, Mortgage Fraud, RBS, RBS GRG, Rory Cullinan, Ross McEwan, Serious Fraud Office, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester, Top Stories, Treasury Select Committee, West Register
Tags: banking fraud, Barclays malpractice, Chris Sullivan, civil litigation, Clifford Chance Report, criminal evidence, Derek Sach, Financial Conduct Authority, Fred Goodwin, Lloyds malpractice, Malpractice, RBS, RBS GRG, RBS Malpractice, RBS West Register, ROYAL Bank of Scotland, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester
James Hurley Enterprise Editor Published at 12:01AM, May 5 2015 Royal Bank of Scotland was under pressure to strip companies of their assets to improve its balance sheet, The Times can reveal. The bank’s global restructuring group, which was supposed…
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Category: Bank Crime, Caught telling lies, Clifford Chance RBS review April 2014, Financial Conduct Authority, Fred Goodwin, GRG, Lawrence Tomlinson, Malpractice, RBS, Ross McEwan, Serious Fraud Office, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester, Top Stories, Treasury Select Committee, West Register, whistleblowing, witnesses and evidence
Tags: banking fraud, civil litigation, criminal evidence, Derek Sach, evidence, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Malpractice, Private Criminal Prosecutions UK, RBS, RBS GRG, RBS West Register, Rory Cullinan, ROYAL Bank of Scotland, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester, whistleblowing
On Wednesday 11 March 2015 the UK Supreme Court announced its decision in favour of Mr Carlyle. All of the five UK Supreme Court Justices found in Mr Carlyle’s favour making this an overwhelming victory for the property developer who…
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Category: Bank Crime, Caught telling lies, Evidence duties, Full disclosure required, Helpful legislation, Lawrence Tomlinson, LEGAL NEWS, Malpractice, RBS, Top Stories, witnesses and evidence
Tags: civil litigation, credibility of witnessess, RBS, RBS Malpractice, ROYAL Bank of Scotland, Supreme Court Justices, UK Supreme Court, Verbal contract
Banking and Finance Gary Parkinson, James Hurley Last updated at 12:01AM, March 2 2015 More than 250 companies claiming to have been damaged or destroyed by Royal Bank of Scotland’s “turnaround” division have clubbed together to sue the…
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Category: Bank Crime, Caught telling lies, Clifford Chance RBS review April 2014, GRG, Judiciary calling for action, LEGAL NEWS, Malpractice, RBS, Ross McEwan, Serious Fraud Office, Sir Philip Hampton, Stephen Hester, Top Stories, Treasury Select Committee, West Register
Tags: banking fraud, Chris Sullivan, civil litigation, criminal evidence, Derek Sach, Malpractice, RBS, RBS Action Group, RBS GRG, RBS Malpractice, RBS West Register
THE CASE There is an excellent post by Janna Purdie on the Lexis Nexis Dispute Resolution Blog discussing this case in relation to the credibility of witnesses. REVIEW OF GUIDANCE IN RELATION TO CREDIBILITY HH Simon Brown QC reviewed the…
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Category: All Banks, Bank Crime, Evidence duties, Helpful legislation, LEGAL NEWS, witnesses and evidence
Tags: banking fraud, civil litigation, credibility of witnessess, criminal evidence, evidence, Private Criminal Prosecutions UK
Many earlier posts have concentrated upon the need for care and accuracy in the drafting of witness statements. A classic example of the problems that can occur is shown in the judgment of Mr Justice Warby in David Halberstam -v-…
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February 19, 2014 COOKE -v- VENULUM PROPERTY INVESTMENTS LTD [2013] EWHC 4288 Freezing orders are part of the “nuclear weapons” of civil litigation. As such they should be approached with extreme care. This case illustrates the dangers involved when a…
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In PCV -v- The Y Regional Government of X [2014] EWHC 68 (Comm) Mr Justice Hamblen set out, in clear terms, the rigorous nature of the duty to give full and frank disclosure to the court when making a without…
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