Commercial Fraud : Civil Liability, Human Rights, and Money Laundering

Ulph, Janet

ISBN 10: 019826867X / ISBN 13: 9780198268673

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2006

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• Titolo: Commercial Fraud : Civil Liability, Human Rights, and Money Laundering
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019826867X
• ISBN 13: 9780198268673
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Theft, deception, bribery, rogue trading and money laundering present massive and apparently insuperable problems for governments worldwide. On a national and international scale, these types of activities may have social, economic and political repercussions. This new book is primarily concerned with the impact of these activities upon private individuals. The text analyses the position of the victim, the fraudster, recipients of property and accessories. The focus is upon the civil law aspects of fraud and the increasing significance of money laundering legislation and the law of human rights.

The main theme of this book is an examination of the extent to which fraudulent activity triggers special rules which are exceptions to the general principles of civil law. There is the further question of the extent to which theft and fraud affect transactions which are interlinked. Policy issues are weighed in the balance, such as the protection of property rights against the need to ensure the free circulation of goods and the security of good faith purchase, and the demand for certainty in the law against the need to deter fraud.

Informazioni sull?autore

Janet Ulph is a graduate of Nottingham University with postgraduate degrees in Law from Cambridge University and Harvard Law School in the United States. She is a non-practising solicitor and a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Durham (teaching Commercial Law and Equity and Trusts at undergraduate level and Commercial Fraud and International Trade at postgraduate level).

Sir Michael Tugendhat is a Judge of the High Court assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He was educated at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge before being awarded the Henry Fellowship at Yale University Law School. He was called to the Bar of Inner Temple in 1969 before joining 5 Raymond Buildings Chambers. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1986, a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1994 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 1995. Since 2000 he has also sat as a Judge of the Courts of Appeal in Jersey and Guernsey.