Fraud Charges in UK Law

  • Armitage v Nurse
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Marzo 1997
    ... ... unless such loss or damage shall be caused by his own actual fraud" (my emphasis) ... 17 The Clause was taken from ... These are charges of negligence, not fraud; and this is confirmed by the terms in which the ... ...
  • Norwich and Peterborough Building Society v Steed
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Marzo 1992
    ... ... and Mrs. Hammond, and of the Charges Register by removing the three charges to which I have referred. The judge ... Building Society's side because there is no pleaded allegation of fraud against him, which is true but hardly a complete explanation…" ... ...
  • Riches v DPP
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Marzo 1973
    ... ... of counsel, material which showed that there was no evidence of fraud against Mr. Riches whatever. That, of course, is a very difficult ... of him on the conspiracy charge or on any of the three substantive charges which he had to meet at the Suffolk Assizes. In those circumstances, as it ... ...
  • R (Bermingham and Others) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 21 Febrero 2006
    ... ... too is grist to the abuse of process mill because it may throw light on the true intentions of the American prosecutor in seeking to bring charges in Texas for an offence of wire fraud where the only named loser was an English company, the Bank ... 62 35. Before returning to the narrative it ... ...
  • Director of the Serious Fraud Office v O'Brien
    • Supreme Court
    • 02 Abril 2014
    ... ... The Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") by now wanted his extradition in order to prosecute him on charges relating to the alleged fraud. They sought the assistance of the US authorities and a federal arrest warrant was issued against him. On 8 October ... ...
  • HMRC v Livewire and Another
    • Chancery Division
    • 16 Enero 2009
    ... ... Introduction ... 1 VAT fraud is a serious problem for national taxing authorities throughout the ... He then sells on those goods to a domestic buyer and charges VAT. He dishonestly fails to account for the VAT to HMRC and disappears ... ...
  • Connelly v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Abril 1964
    ... ... Clearly those facts were capable of giving rise to two charges against the Appellant—murder and robbery. He was tried and convicted of ... prisoner (inter alia) with obtaining credit for certain goods by fraud and there was a separate indictment charging him with larceny of the same ... ...
  • DPP v Stonehouse
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Junio 1977
    ... ... 4 This House is not concerned in this appeal with any of the charges of complete offences. He was convicted on thirteen of these. Your ... of the false pretences to obtain on his behalf the fruits of his fraud. Neither he nor the company in Jersey are likely to have considered or ... ...
  • Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 07 Junio 1996
    ... ... is to say in cases where money had been obtained and retained by fraud, or where it had been withheld or misapplied by a trustee or anyone else ... (iv) R1 charges the shares in X company to R3 by way of equitable security for a loan from ... ...
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another v Rossminster Ltd .; Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another v AJR Financial Services Ltd .; Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another v Plummer .; Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another v Tucker,
    • House of Lords
    • 13 Diciembre 1979
    ... ... as evidence for the purposes of proceedings in respect of a "tax fraud"? A third possible issue, namely, that there was not before the judge ... Tax frauds may take many forms and lead to a variety of criminal charges. If the Court of Appeal is right, it means that before any evidence ... ...
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