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Cases - Bark & Co Solicitors - Specialist Fraud Firm
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These are our some of our cases of note:
R v Nadir
Description: Bark & Co have been instructed by the former CEO of Polly Peck International (PPI) in an alleged multi-million pound fraud. The client faced 66 counts of Fraud & Theft, but failed to appear in the 1993 trial. Mr Nadir has returned to the UK to fight to clear his name.
The trial date is now set for January 2012.
Significance: One of the first high profile SFO prosecutions.
R v Ravjani & Others
Bark & Co represented a client accused significant involvement in a complex contra-trading MTIC fraud. The alleged fraud was of a scale that prompted the Government to proffer the case as an explanation as to why the UK balance of payments were adrift for a particular year. Unfortunately, reporting restrictions prevent us from publishing the full outcome at this time.
R v X
Description: This matter involves an insider trading investigation at a number of banks and hedge funds and other large financial institutions conducted by the FSA and SOCA which Reuters reports has “sent shockwaves through the country's financial industry”.
Significance: This case involves significant press interest and involves the representation of a director at a very high profile financial institution.
R v CC & PF
Description: This case involves the arrest of nine directors of an ethical investment company investing in the energy sector. The value of the alleged fraud, which related to the company’s tax structure, is in excess of £85 million. It raises questions on the differences between tax evasion and tax avoidance. The company obtained tax benefits for research and development in the energy sector and secured investment from 750 specialist private investors.
Significance: This case will have far reaching consequences for the whole of the ethical carbon offsetting industry, as well as for allcompanies with similar tax structures. The company in question was advised by tax specialists and lawyers regarding the legislation involved. HMRC allege that the complex nature of the related companies and tax structures were formed for the specific reason of perpetrating a fraud while the company states that they were not only legitimate but standard industry practice.
R v F & P (Vantis Tax)
Description: We acted for former senior executives for a specialist tax division of Vantis Plc defending allegations of cheating the public revenue. They both vigorously deny the allegations made against them.
Significance: This case involves extremely complex tax, share valuation and trust issues, and raises serious questions concerning the boundaries of tax avoidance schemes and their use. It attracted significant media interest with coverage in the nationals and trade press.
R v S & Others
Description: Bark & Co is representing a client who is involved in a wide ranging FSA investigation into an alleged 11-handed insider dealing fraud. This matter revolves around a spread-betting company that was used to place derivative trades on share price movements. Trades were made close to, or before, significant and unexpected company announcements which influenced the share price in the direction of the placed trade. It is alleged that a ring of traders, some of whom had no previous experience in spread betting, were organised to perpetrate the fraud with the insider information originating from two well-known investment banks.
Significance: The value of the alleged fraud is over £3 million and involved insider information on more than 25 companies that the investment banks dealt with. This case is still at the investigation stage but charges are being brought.
R v W, W, W & D (Southwark Crown Court)
Description: Our client is charged with conspiracy to defraud and money laundering offences. This case follows a joint FSA and City of London Police operation and investigation into a boiler room fraud. It is alleged that several companies that were seeking venture capital were used as vehicles to generate appropriate share capital to sell to victims based in the UK. The boiler rooms were based overseas and unregulated by the FSA. They generated over £30 million in income which was then filtered through a complex network of companies and holding accounts and into UK and offshore accounts.
Significance: The fraud is so large that the FSA has determined that it is limiting the case to six primary front companies. Not only is this case a good example of the scale and increasing prevalence of this type of fraud, it also demonstrates how international operations are being used to bypass the UK financial regulators and authorities.
R v S, R, D, S, S & T (Southwark Crown Court)
Description: This was a six-handed prosecution of the founders and associates of the “Confidential Access” website. Our client is alleged to have used his business to facilitate the sale of false identity documents that were used to commit fraud and crime. The identity documents, which included passports, P45s, bank statements and other financial and identity documents, were marketed and sold as legal “novelty items”, but their accuracy means they were used by clients who were being investigated by the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorism unit. In a joint operation with the Hong Kong Organised Crime Team, the Confidential Access website was temporarily shut down and the servers and business records seized. The website subsequently reopened in another county and the authorities entered into an ongoing battle across several jurisdictions to force the website to close down.
Significance: This case provides a unique insight into the type of identity-based frauds that will become more commonplace in the future. It also shows the difficulties involved in dealing with international and cross-jurisdictional issues surrounding internet free trade and international payment systems. Not surprisingly, the case attracted media attention, although the details remain confidential.
R v L (Southwark Crown Court)
Description: Our client in this case is being re-tried after a trial held in 2008 failed to reach a verdict. The client is charged with cheating the public revenue of £250 million in a large-scale and complex MTIC VAT fraud in the mobile phone handset market.
Significance: The scale of the operation and subsequent investigation was impressive, with 42 arrests in 2003, 96 sets of premises searched and 260 computers and 500,000 documents seized, as well as substantial amounts of electronic data. This fraud is serious and involves highly complex forensic accountancy and international funds tracing aspects. Again, it has attracted considerable media attention.
R v L (Southwark Crown Court)
Description: iSoft was awarded a multi-million pound contract to implement an All Ireland software system. Bark & Co is representing a former director in connection with alleged accounting irregularities in relation to this contract. This case is in the FSA's own words the largest case they have ever investigated.
Significance: iSoft were involved in the implementation of the new NHS IT system, a large and politically sensitive project and the case has received extensive press coverage. It has therefore required extremely sensitive handling. The issues involved are also particularly complex and involve forensic legal and accountancy analysis.
iSoft related cases (representing X)
Description: iSoft was awarded a multi-million pound contract to implement an All Ireland software system. Bark & Co is representing a former director in connection with alleged accounting irregularities in relation to this contract. This case is in the FSA's own words the largest case they have ever investigated.
Significance: iSoft were involved in the implementation of the new NHS IT system, a large and politically sensitive project and the case has received extensive press coverage. It has therefore required extremely sensitive handling. The issues involved are also particularly complex and involve forensic legal and accountancy analysis.
R v R
Description: This is said to be among the biggest MTIC carousel frauds ever prosecuted. It involves a particularly complex form of MTIC fraud called ‘contra-trading’. Here, the perpetrator mixes a ‘clean’ chain of transactions and a ‘dirty’ chain. The key is that they act as importer in the clean chain and exporter in the dirty one, therefore offsetting legal imports against illegal exports, making the VAT claim relatively balanced and the fraud far harder to detect.
Significance: This case is said to be one of the biggest MTIC frauds ever prosecuted and involves billions of pounds worth of trade. It will give rise to national publicity and widespread public concern because MTIC fraud has become so widespread that it is responsible for the UK trade figures being completely miscalculated. In this instance there has been £170 million of fraud identified within the telecoms sector involving the international trading of mobile phones. Contra-trading is an increasing growth area of specialist defence where Bark & Co is among the leaders. This case has at present over 60,000 pages of exhibited prosecution materials with over 100,000 expected, making the estimated cost of prosecuting the case substantial (more than £1million).
R v L, R & H
Description: This was a high-profile SFO prosecution concerning fraudulent trading. The prosecution alleges that there was fraudulent trading over a 3-4 year period at Alfred McAlpine Slate Limited. This took the form of false invoicing and the concealment of the false information from the parent company, Alfred McAlpine plc, and their auditors, by way of forged loans, invoices and manipulation of management packs.
Significance: This case was the subject of a three-month internal investigation by PMCE Coopers Waterhouse and the City law firm, Ashurst. Press interest is high and the case has appeared on Sky News, in The Times, and The Guardian, as well as local papers, financial journals and Reuters. It is alleged that the discovery of the fraud led to a drop in the McAlpine Slate share price and contributed to the acquisition of McAlpine by Carillion plc. With over 50,000 pages of served evidence, this case was both complex and high profile. We were successful in achieving a lenient sentence for our client.
R v Lord Rodley, Coyne & Others
Description: This case involved a conspiracy to defraud the SMBC Bank in London of £227 million and money laundering the proceeds of the fraud. A security guard at SMBC bank, who had access to its computer system, allowed two Belgium computer experts entry into the bank and access to the computer systems outside working hours. They hacked into the bank’s systems to obtain passwords and to transfer funds to accounts set up to launder the proceeds of this fraud.
Significance:Three defendants stood a fully contended cut-throat trial. Our client (David Coyne aka Nash) is alleged to have been involved both in the main plan to defraud the bank and the money laundering as he was the owner of several offshore bank accounts that were allegedly set up to receive the funds
R v F, D & Others
Description: The case results from an investigation into a successful multi-million pound international lottery scam, which began with a complaint concerning unsolicited e-mails from the Philippines. The scam involved claims that the victim would be the beneficiary of a percentage of an estate worth $10.2 million.
Significance: The alarm was raised by Barclays Bank in New York. A joint investigation by the FBI and Metropolitan Police then uncovered a number of victims of the fraud, who were resident in various places, ranging from the USA, to Malaysia, Japan and the Middle East. The joint investigation resulted in six arrests. This case demonstrates our ability to handle complex international fraud cases, requiring the gathering of evidence and information in a number of jurisdictions.
R v Nadir
Description: Bark & Co have been instructed by the former CEO of Polly Peck International (PPI) in an alleged multi-million pound fraud. The client faced 66 counts of Fraud & Theft, but failed to appear in the 1993 trial. Mr Nadir has returned to the UK to fight to clear his name.
The trial date is now set for January 2012.
Significance: One of the first high profile SFO prosecutions.
R v Ravjani & Others
Bark & Co represented a client accused significant involvement in a complex contra-trading MTIC fraud. The alleged fraud was of a scale that prompted the Government to proffer the case as an explanation as to why the UK balance of payments were adrift for a particular year. Unfortunately, reporting restrictions prevent us from publishing the full outcome at this time.
R v X
Description: This matter involves an insider trading investigation at a number of banks and hedge funds and other large financial institutions conducted by the FSA and SOCA which Reuters reports has “sent shockwaves through the country's financial industry”.
Significance: This case involves significant press interest and involves the representation of a director at a very high profile financial institution.
R v CC & PF
Description: This case involves the arrest of nine directors of an ethical investment company investing in the energy sector. The value of the alleged fraud, which related to the company’s tax structure, is in excess of £85 million. It raises questions on the differences between tax evasion and tax avoidance. The company obtained tax benefits for research and development in the energy sector and secured investment from 750 specialist private investors.
Significance: This case will have far reaching consequences for the whole of the ethical carbon offsetting industry, as well as for allcompanies with similar tax structures. The company in question was advised by tax specialists and lawyers regarding the legislation involved. HMRC allege that the complex nature of the related companies and tax structures were formed for the specific reason of perpetrating a fraud while the company states that they were not only legitimate but standard industry practice.
R v F & P (Vantis Tax)
Description: We acted for former senior executives for a specialist tax division of Vantis Plc defending allegations of cheating the public revenue. They both vigorously deny the allegations made against them.
Significance: This case involves extremely complex tax, share valuation and trust issues, and raises serious questions concerning the boundaries of tax avoidance schemes and their use. It attracted significant media interest with coverage in the nationals and trade press.
R v S & Others
Description: Bark & Co is representing a client who is involved in a wide ranging FSA investigation into an alleged 11-handed insider dealing fraud. This matter revolves around a spread-betting company that was used to place derivative trades on share price movements. Trades were made close to, or before, significant and unexpected company announcements which influenced the share price in the direction of the placed trade. It is alleged that a ring of traders, some of whom had no previous experience in spread betting, were organised to perpetrate the fraud with the insider information originating from two well-known investment banks.
Significance: The value of the alleged fraud is over £3 million and involved insider information on more than 25 companies that the investment banks dealt with. This case is still at the investigation stage but charges are being brought.
R v W, W, W & D (Southwark Crown Court)
Description: Our client is charged with conspiracy to defraud and money laundering offences. This case follows a joint FSA and City of London Police operation and investigation into a boiler room fraud. It is alleged that several companies that were seeking venture capital were used as vehicles to generate appropriate share capital to sell to victims based in the UK. The boiler rooms were based overseas and unregulated by the FSA. They generated over £30 million in income which was then filtered through a complex network of companies and holding accounts and into UK and offshore accounts.
Significance: The fraud is so large that the FSA has determined that it is limiting the case to six primary front companies. Not only is this case a good example of the scale and increasing prevalence of this type of fraud, it also demonstrates how international operations are being used to bypass the UK financial regulators and authorities.
R v S, R, D, S, S & T (Southwark Crown Court)
Description: This was a six-handed prosecution of the founders and associates of the “Confidential Access” website. Our client is alleged to have used his business to facilitate the sale of false identity documents that were used to commit fraud and crime. The identity documents, which included passports, P45s, bank statements and other financial and identity documents, were marketed and sold as legal “novelty items”, but their accuracy means they were used by clients who were being investigated by the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorism unit. In a joint operation with the Hong Kong Organised Crime Team, the Confidential Access website was temporarily shut down and the servers and business records seized. The website subsequently reopened in another county and the authorities entered into an ongoing battle across several jurisdictions to force the website to close down.
Significance: This case provides a unique insight into the type of identity-based frauds that will become more commonplace in the future. It also shows the difficulties involved in dealing with international and cross-jurisdictional issues surrounding internet free trade and international payment systems. Not surprisingly, the case attracted media attention, although the details remain confidential.
R v L (Southwark Crown Court)
Description: Our client in this case is being re-tried after a trial held in 2008 failed to reach a verdict. The client is charged with cheating the public revenue of £250 million in a large-scale and complex MTIC VAT fraud in the mobile phone handset market.
Significance: The scale of the operation and subsequent investigation was impressive, with 42 arrests in 2003, 96 sets of premises searched and 260 computers and 500,000 documents seized, as well as substantial amounts of electronic data. This fraud is serious and involves highly complex forensic accountancy and international funds tracing aspects. Again, it has attracted considerable media attention.
R v L (Southwark Crown Court)
Description: iSoft was awarded a multi-million pound contract to implement an All Ireland software system. Bark & Co is representing a former director in connection with alleged accounting irregularities in relation to this contract. This case is in the FSA's own words the largest case they have ever investigated.
Significance: iSoft were involved in the implementation of the new NHS IT system, a large and politically sensitive project and the case has received extensive press coverage. It has therefore required extremely sensitive handling. The issues involved are also particularly complex and involve forensic legal and accountancy analysis.
iSoft related cases (representing X)
Description: iSoft was awarded a multi-million pound contract to implement an All Ireland software system. Bark & Co is representing a former director in connection with alleged accounting irregularities in relation to this contract. This case is in the FSA's own words the largest case they have ever investigated.
Significance: iSoft were involved in the implementation of the new NHS IT system, a large and politically sensitive project and the case has received extensive press coverage. It has therefore required extremely sensitive handling. The issues involved are also particularly complex and involve forensic legal and accountancy analysis.
R v R
Description: This is said to be among the biggest MTIC carousel frauds ever prosecuted. It involves a particularly complex form of MTIC fraud called ‘contra-trading’. Here, the perpetrator mixes a ‘clean’ chain of transactions and a ‘dirty’ chain. The key is that they act as importer in the clean chain and exporter in the dirty one, therefore offsetting legal imports against illegal exports, making the VAT claim relatively balanced and the fraud far harder to detect.
Significance: This case is said to be one of the biggest MTIC frauds ever prosecuted and involves billions of pounds worth of trade. It will give rise to national publicity and widespread public concern because MTIC fraud has become so widespread that it is responsible for the UK trade figures being completely miscalculated. In this instance there has been £170 million of fraud identified within the telecoms sector involving the international trading of mobile phones. Contra-trading is an increasing growth area of specialist defence where Bark & Co is among the leaders. This case has at present over 60,000 pages of exhibited prosecution materials with over 100,000 expected, making the estimated cost of prosecuting the case substantial (more than £1million).
R v L, R & H
Description: This was a high-profile SFO prosecution concerning fraudulent trading. The prosecution alleges that there was fraudulent trading over a 3-4 year period at Alfred McAlpine Slate Limited. This took the form of false invoicing and the concealment of the false information from the parent company, Alfred McAlpine plc, and their auditors, by way of forged loans, invoices and manipulation of management packs.
Significance: This case was the subject of a three-month internal investigation by PMCE Coopers Waterhouse and the City law firm, Ashurst. Press interest is high and the case has appeared on Sky News, in The Times, and The Guardian, as well as local papers, financial journals and Reuters. It is alleged that the discovery of the fraud led to a drop in the McAlpine Slate share price and contributed to the acquisition of McAlpine by Carillion plc. With over 50,000 pages of served evidence, this case was both complex and high profile. We were successful in achieving a lenient sentence for our client.
R v Lord Rodley, Coyne & Others
Description: This case involved a conspiracy to defraud the SMBC Bank in London of £227 million and money laundering the proceeds of the fraud. A security guard at SMBC bank, who had access to its computer system, allowed two Belgium computer experts entry into the bank and access to the computer systems outside working hours. They hacked into the bank’s systems to obtain passwords and to transfer funds to accounts set up to launder the proceeds of this fraud.
Significance:Three defendants stood a fully contended cut-throat trial. Our client (David Coyne aka Nash) is alleged to have been involved both in the main plan to defraud the bank and the money laundering as he was the owner of several offshore bank accounts that were allegedly set up to receive the funds
R v F, D & Others
Description: The case results from an investigation into a successful multi-million pound international lottery scam, which began with a complaint concerning unsolicited e-mails from the Philippines. The scam involved claims that the victim would be the beneficiary of a percentage of an estate worth $10.2 million.
Significance: The alarm was raised by Barclays Bank in New York. A joint investigation by the FBI and Metropolitan Police then uncovered a number of victims of the fraud, who were resident in various places, ranging from the USA, to Malaysia, Japan and the Middle East. The joint investigation resulted in six arrests. This case demonstrates our ability to handle complex international fraud cases, requiring the gathering of evidence and information in a number of jurisdictions.
bark and co solicitors, R v Thakrar - client acquitted
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Bark & Co Solicitors have successfully secured the acquittal of Kevan Thakrar. Our client is a serving prisoner having previously been convicted of triple murder in 2009.
Kevan Thakrar was charged with 2 counts of attempt murder and 3 counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. All allegations related to attacks on prison officers in HMP Frankland, Durham.
Giving evidence, Kevan Thakrar informed the jury that he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following an attack on him by officers within the prison system. His defence centred around the bullying and racism that he has sustained whilst in the prison system and that his actions were in self defence.
The Solicitor instructed, Marie Bourke, along with a dedicated defence team from Bark & Co, sought and succeeded in obtaining information which severely undermined the prosecution case and highlighted the torturous regime which is alive within the prison system. Great lengths were taken to secure evidence from legal professionals, professionals within the medical field, as well as serving prisoners.
Press:
"Frankland prison has been found guilty" - The Guardian
"Inmate Kevan Thakrar cleared over prison guards attack" BBC News,
Kevan Thakrar trial: Killer in racist bullying claims: BBC News
" 'Stressed' killer cleared of attack on guards in Durham's Frankland Prison" - Northern Echo
The Mirror
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Bark & Co Solicitors have successfully secured the acquittal of Kevan Thakrar. Our client is a serving prisoner having previously been convicted of triple murder in 2009.
Kevan Thakrar was charged with 2 counts of attempt murder and 3 counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. All allegations related to attacks on prison officers in HMP Frankland, Durham.
Giving evidence, Kevan Thakrar informed the jury that he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following an attack on him by officers within the prison system. His defence centred around the bullying and racism that he has sustained whilst in the prison system and that his actions were in self defence.
The Solicitor instructed, Marie Bourke, along with a dedicated defence team from Bark & Co, sought and succeeded in obtaining information which severely undermined the prosecution case and highlighted the torturous regime which is alive within the prison system. Great lengths were taken to secure evidence from legal professionals, professionals within the medical field, as well as serving prisoners.
Press:
"Frankland prison has been found guilty" - The Guardian
"Inmate Kevan Thakrar cleared over prison guards attack" BBC News,
Kevan Thakrar trial: Killer in racist bullying claims: BBC News
" 'Stressed' killer cleared of attack on guards in Durham's Frankland Prison" - Northern Echo
The Mirror
Other:
Saturday, 30 June 2012
Bark and Co Solicitors: Civil fraud, bark and co solicitors london -CURREN...
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Whether you are accused of fraud or a victim of fraud, Bark & Co is able to bring in expert and experienced legal assistance without delay.
For victims of fraud, we will where necessary call upon a partnership of forensic accountants and investigators to help examine your case in detail. They will formulate a strategy and utilize all available legal tools with a view to obtaining maximum recompense for you, the client. Our teams do not hesitate to obtain freezing and search orders to achieve their goals and always work proactively and aggressively in the interests of a successful outcome. Bark & Co are staffed by experienced lawyers complemented by former law enforcement officers who possess a proven record of success in this area.
Should you be accused of fraud, the sanctions imposed on you as an individual can be financially challenging as well as distressing. Our teams are used to reacting quickly to seek to reduce these effects whilst investigating your defense to the earliest possible conclusion.
Bark & Co has unrivalled experience in defending those accused of fraud, in particular in the criminal sphere, and these skills are readily transferable to the civil courts.
Whether you are accused of fraud or a victim of fraud, Bark & Co is able to bring in expert and experienced legal assistance without delay.
For victims of fraud, we will where necessary call upon a partnership of forensic accountants and investigators to help examine your case in detail. They will formulate a strategy and utilize all available legal tools with a view to obtaining maximum recompense for you, the client. Our teams do not hesitate to obtain freezing and search orders to achieve their goals and always work proactively and aggressively in the interests of a successful outcome. Bark & Co are staffed by experienced lawyers complemented by former law enforcement officers who possess a proven record of success in this area.
Should you be accused of fraud, the sanctions imposed on you as an individual can be financially challenging as well as distressing. Our teams are used to reacting quickly to seek to reduce these effects whilst investigating your defense to the earliest possible conclusion.
Bark & Co has unrivalled experience in defending those accused of fraud, in particular in the criminal sphere, and these skills are readily transferable to the civil courts.
Bark and Co Solicitors: Bark & Co Solicitors London Expertise, giles bark ...
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Everyone is entitled to have qualified legal representation and a stellar defence and with Bark & Co Solicitors representing a client or a national or international company, can be sure of acquiring the best legal team available. Giles Bark-Jones opened the firm in1966 which strives for equality, diversity and justice.The Firm’s ExpertiseThe award winning law firm has assembled the best team of lawyers that specialise in civil fraud, tax litigation, criminal fraud and other legal issues. Bark & Co Solicitors specialises in white-collar fraud, civil fraud, criminal fraud, asset and cash recovery, money laundering, restraint orders and other legal matters. Bark & Co Solicitors have handled many high-profiled cases that involve dealing with many legal entities such as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Services Authority (FSA), The Very High Costs Cases (VHCC) and other legal entities.
Everyone is entitled to have qualified legal representation and a stellar defence and with Bark & Co Solicitors representing a client or a national or international company, can be sure of acquiring the best legal team available. Giles Bark-Jones opened the firm in1966 which strives for equality, diversity and justice.The Firm’s ExpertiseThe award winning law firm has assembled the best team of lawyers that specialise in civil fraud, tax litigation, criminal fraud and other legal issues. Bark & Co Solicitors specialises in white-collar fraud, civil fraud, criminal fraud, asset and cash recovery, money laundering, restraint orders and other legal matters. Bark & Co Solicitors have handled many high-profiled cases that involve dealing with many legal entities such as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Services Authority (FSA), The Very High Costs Cases (VHCC) and other legal entities.
Monday, 25 June 2012
Bark and Co Solicitors: Commercial Litigation & Business Disputes, giles b...
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Commercial Litigation & Business Disputes, giles bark jones -SQUIDOO
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Bark & Co's initial response to business disputes is to research, analyse and obtain a clear understanding of the nature of any dispute with a view to resolving it quickly and at minimum cost.
Business disputes are increasingly common in the current economic climate but, in our experience, most can be settled without recourse to expensive Court proceedings. In the first instance we employ full use of Alternative Dispute Resolution methodologies to ascertain whether agreement can be achieved by other means - for example mediation.
Where Court proceedings cannot be avoided, our expert team will work tenaciously to ensure that the litigation process is pursued in the most efficient, timely and cost effective manner to achieve the best possible outcome for our client.
Commercial litigation covers a wide range of disputes from misuse of intellectual property and violations of securities law to employment disputes and breaches of contract. Our clients range from individuals to large corporations in UK and abroad. In all cases we ensure their specific requirements are matched by a team of appropriately able and experienced lawyers.
Bark & Co's initial response to business disputes is to research, analyse and obtain a clear understanding of the nature of any dispute with a view to resolving it quickly and at minimum cost.
Business disputes are increasingly common in the current economic climate but, in our experience, most can be settled without recourse to expensive Court proceedings. In the first instance we employ full use of Alternative Dispute Resolution methodologies to ascertain whether agreement can be achieved by other means - for example mediation.
Where Court proceedings cannot be avoided, our expert team will work tenaciously to ensure that the litigation process is pursued in the most efficient, timely and cost effective manner to achieve the best possible outcome for our client.
Commercial litigation covers a wide range of disputes from misuse of intellectual property and violations of securities law to employment disputes and breaches of contract. Our clients range from individuals to large corporations in UK and abroad. In all cases we ensure their specific requirements are matched by a team of appropriately able and experienced lawyers.
Bark and Co Solicitors: UBS 'rogue' trader Kweku Adoboli granted bail, gil...
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Kweku Adoboli, the city trader who is accused of losing Swiss bank, UBS, £1.4 billion, trying to make personal gains and exposing the bank to losses, has been granted bail following a hearing at Southwark Crown Court, yesterday.
Mr Adoboli, of Clark Street, East London, is accused of unauthorised trading whilst employed in UBS’s global synthetic equities division.
Mr Adoboli, 32, was denied bail at an earlier hearing in February. At an earlier hearing he denied two counts of fraud between January and September 2011, and two counts of false accounting between 2008 and 2011.
He has been held at Wandsworth Prison. Mr Adoboli was reported to be “delighted” at the decision.
His lawyer, Giles Bark-Jones told the BBC: "Our client is both emotional and delighted at the outcome of today's bail hearing. He looks forward to working on his case at our London offices."
Mr Adoboli will now be released on bail on condition that he lives at a friends’ house and abides by a curfew which will be enforced through an electronic tagging system. A sum of surety has been put up on his behalf by friends, though details have not been released.
Mr Adoboli is due to stand full trial in September, with a preliminary trial penciled in for July 20th.
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Bark and Co Solicitors: Bark & Co Solicitors: Legal500, bark and co
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Bark & Co Solicitors: Legal500, bark and co
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Bark & Co’s clients benefit from the support of one of the country’s leading fraud and business crime firms. It’s highly-skilled lawyers are committed to providing top class advice at every stage of proceedings. If it can prevent expensive litigation then it will; if not then it will fight tenaciously to protect its clients’ interests.
Bark & Co’s clients benefit from the support of one of the country’s leading fraud and business crime firms. It’s highly-skilled lawyers are committed to providing top class advice at every stage of proceedings. If it can prevent expensive litigation then it will; if not then it will fight tenaciously to protect its clients’ interests.
Monday, 18 June 2012
Bark and Co Solicitors: HMRC TARGETING SWISS HSBC ACCOUNTS
Bark and Co Solicitors: HMRC TARGETING SWISS HSBC ACCOUNTS: http://www.barkco.co.uk/News/HMRC+TARGETING+SWISS+HSBC+ACCOUNTS You may have seen media coverage concerning HMRC’s use of account holder ...
HMRC TARGETING SWISS HSBC ACCOUNTS
http://www.barkco.co.uk/News/HMRC+TARGETING+SWISS+HSBC+ACCOUNTS
You may have seen media coverage concerning HMRC’s use of account holder information stolen from HSBC in Switzerland. It is now evident that HMRC has reviewed the information and has launched a concerted attack against tax evasion on the strength of it...
You may have seen media coverage concerning HMRC’s use of account holder information stolen from HSBC in Switzerland. It is now evident that HMRC has reviewed the information and has launched a concerted attack against tax evasion on the strength of it.
We have recently seen a flurry of new tax investigations under Code of Practice 9 [COP9] - Civil Investigations into Cases of Suspected Serious Tax Fraud as a consequence of HMRC being passed information on HSBC customers who have accounts in Switzerland. Investigations under COP9 are the most serious non-criminal tax investigations that HMRC undertakes. These enquiries are being led by HMRC’s most elite investigators at Specialist Investigations [SI], with the recent cases originating from the Glasgow office.
The background to this initiative concerns the theft, three years ago, by an employee of HSBC, of the personal account details of 24,000 customers who held accounts in Switzerland. The customers involved were not necessarily resident in Switzerland, and it is believed that approximately 25% are either UK resident or have an exposure to UK taxation. The information was initially sold to the French and Italian tax authorities who have used it to undertake a number of investigations and recover significant sums of tax. This information has now been passed to HMRC, and HMRC is using it to ratchet up its stated objective to tackle tax evasion linked to offshore bank accounts.
In view of the seriousness of enquiries under COP9, it is vital that anyone who receives a fraud notice obtains professional advice immediately. Without the support of a suitable experienced professional advisor, COP9 enquiries can be difficult and stressful. We have years of professional experience in assisting clients with these enquiries and have the necessary expertise to ensure that clients only pay the correct amount of tax.
Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
You may have seen media coverage concerning HMRC’s use of account holder information stolen from HSBC in Switzerland. It is now evident that HMRC has reviewed the information and has launched a concerted attack against tax evasion on the strength of it...
You may have seen media coverage concerning HMRC’s use of account holder information stolen from HSBC in Switzerland. It is now evident that HMRC has reviewed the information and has launched a concerted attack against tax evasion on the strength of it.
We have recently seen a flurry of new tax investigations under Code of Practice 9 [COP9] - Civil Investigations into Cases of Suspected Serious Tax Fraud as a consequence of HMRC being passed information on HSBC customers who have accounts in Switzerland. Investigations under COP9 are the most serious non-criminal tax investigations that HMRC undertakes. These enquiries are being led by HMRC’s most elite investigators at Specialist Investigations [SI], with the recent cases originating from the Glasgow office.
The background to this initiative concerns the theft, three years ago, by an employee of HSBC, of the personal account details of 24,000 customers who held accounts in Switzerland. The customers involved were not necessarily resident in Switzerland, and it is believed that approximately 25% are either UK resident or have an exposure to UK taxation. The information was initially sold to the French and Italian tax authorities who have used it to undertake a number of investigations and recover significant sums of tax. This information has now been passed to HMRC, and HMRC is using it to ratchet up its stated objective to tackle tax evasion linked to offshore bank accounts.
In view of the seriousness of enquiries under COP9, it is vital that anyone who receives a fraud notice obtains professional advice immediately. Without the support of a suitable experienced professional advisor, COP9 enquiries can be difficult and stressful. We have years of professional experience in assisting clients with these enquiries and have the necessary expertise to ensure that clients only pay the correct amount of tax.
Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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