Civil Litigation
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors has a specialist civil litigation team with extensive experience spanning a range of practices, including complex arbitrations and commercial litigations, civil fraud, insolvency, civil forfeiture and recovery and tax fraud.
We are described in the Chambers Guide as “a very reliable firm that provides a top service” and The Legal 500 recognises our team for its “strength in depth” of expertise and notes we “pursue cases with a relentless rigour”.
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05 Jul 2022
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments on the Credit Suisse money laundering verdict
Founding Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments in Compliance Week on Credit Suisse becoming the first major Swiss bank to be prosecuted for money laundering in the country.
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20 Oct 2021
Fiduciary Duties and the liability to account: setting a proper limit
Partner Richard Cannon examines fiduciary duties, the divergence in outcomes between different jurisdictions and account of profits. This article was published on Lexology and can be found here. Fiduciary duties have a long history. Cicero, […]
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29 Sep 2021
Stokoe Partnership ranked in The Legal 500 UK Guide 2022
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors has been ranked in The Legal 500 UK 2022 guide for ‘Crime: General’ and ‘Fraud: White Collar Crime (Advice to Individuals)’. Please see below a list of the full rankings and commentary […]
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03 Jun 2021
Bambos Tsiattalou selected for inclusion in the 10th Edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou has been selected for inclusion in the 10th Edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom. Best Lawyers is a peer review guide to the legal profession, providing lawyer rankings […]
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01 Feb 2021
FCA Trader Chat Warning Hints At Virus Misconduct Probes – Bambos Tsiattalou
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments in Law360 on FCA’s recent market watch on electronic communications due to a shift to remote working. Bambos’ comments were published in Law360, 28 January 2021, and can be found here. […]
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25 Jan 2021
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments on the crypto industry in Cryptonews
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments on the crypto industry in relation to regulator scrutiny, in Cryptonews, 23 January 2021. Read Bambos’ full comments here. “The eventual EU regime looks set to require companies offering a cryptocurrency […]
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24 Feb 2020
Bambos Tsiattalou comments in The Telegraph re claims Google is profiting from scam victims
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments in relation to lawyers saying that Google profiting from crime and scam victims may have a claim, in The Telegraph. Bambos’ comments were published in The Telegraph, 23 February 2020, and […]
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16 Jan 2020
Finance Watchdogs Ramp Up Pressure For Libor Transition
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments on the news that the FCA and the Bank of England have ramped up the pressure for Libor transition, in Law360.
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06 Dec 2019
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou writes in FT Adviser regarding FCA ban on speculative mini-bonds
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou examines the Financial Conduct Authority’s ban on speculative mini-bonds from January 2020 in FTAdviser.
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21 Nov 2019
Bambos Tsiattalou comments in The Times re the use of Sars in fight against dirty money
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments on the use of suspicious activity reports in the fight against dirty money.
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05 Nov 2019
EY aided the laundering of drug money | Bambos Tsiattalou
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou discusses the EY case, offering some insight on the exposé, its implications and money laundering challenges in the legal sector as a whole.
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10 Oct 2019
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors ranked in Chambers UK 2020
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors are pleased to have been ranked in the Chambers UK 2020 Guide.
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02 Oct 2019
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency – An Overview
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou discusses Facebook’s move to merge finance and technology and the implications this has for the wealth management sector.
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27 Sep 2019
Stokoe Partnership ranked in The Legal 500 UK Guide 2020
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors has been ranked in The Legal 500 UK 2020 guide for ‘Crime: General’ and ‘Fraud: White Collar Crime’.
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04 Sep 2019
Unexplained Wealth Orders: civil attack against ‘Dirty Money’
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou discusses the use of Unexplained Wealth Orders since they were introduced to enforcement agencies in February 2018, and their use in relation to “politically exposed persons”
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03 Sep 2019
The rise of cyber-stalking
Ernest Aduwa examines the rise in instances of cyber-stalking and the subsequent impact this should have on the way in which individuals interact with technology.
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14 Aug 2019
Could we be slipping into a total surveillance state with no way out?
Solicitor Ernest Aduwa examines the rise in use of facial recognition and the implications of such technology being deployed in public.
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29 Jul 2019
Avoiding the move towards a surveillance state
Solicitor Ernest Aduwa discusses avoiding the move towards a surveillance state, in Digital Forensics Magazine.
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09 Jul 2019
Addressing Modern Slavery Inside And Outside The UK
Partner Maria Theodoulou explains why companies should not ignore the possibility of UK suppliers as a modern slavery risk. Maria’s article was published in Growth Business, 27 June 2019, and Law360, 9 July 2019, and […]
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02 Jul 2019
Civil Freezing Injunctions: How Corporates Can Control Litigation
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou highlights the important function civil freezing injunctions have in shaping the field of financial litigation.
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19 Mar 2019
Cyber security flaws in the automotive industry
Solicitor Ernest Aduwa examines cyber security flaws in the automotive industry, in Automotive World.
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05 Mar 2019
Modern Slavery – A Defence to Drug Dealing and other offences?
The short answer is: maybe. Section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 provides a defence to specific criminal charges where it is shown that they were committed under a compulsion due to slavery or […]
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05 Mar 2019
GPS Electronic Monitoring, Big Brother Will be Watching
The government has announced a national rollout of GPS electronic tagging which will mean 24/7 location monitoring of those wearing the tag. The tag is now available in three Probation areas; the North West, Midlands […]
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05 Mar 2019
Pensions – Time to Rethink Corporate Responsibility
The government has published proposals to punish individuals who mishandle pension scheme management. Two new offences are proposed. The first will target individuals who wilfully or recklessly mishandle pension schemes, endangering workers’ pensions, by such […]
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23 Jan 2019
Restorative Justice
What is it? Restorative Justice, or RJ as it is sometimes known, is a way of holding offenders to account and can be used as an alternative to a caution or conviction, or alongside a […]
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23 Jan 2019
The “Gangs Matrix”
Earlier this year the Metropolitan Police was in the spotlight over their use of a ‘gang matrix’, and now they are back in the news again. What is the matrix? It is a list set […]
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23 Jan 2019
Psychoactive Substances
New legislation was introduced in 2016 banning the production, sale, distribution and supply of psychoactive substances. Within that legislation was a requirement for the government to review the law to measure any changes in outcomes […]
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23 Jan 2019
A Simple Adjournment?
In criminal practice and procedure, you might think that the humble adjournment is a relatively simple and straightforward matter, but you would be wrong. A little like buses, never available when you want one, […]
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23 Jan 2019
End of The Road for Short Prison Sentences?
The big news story of the weekend was the surprising news that the Prisons Minister is considering whether to abolish the power to impose short prison sentences, those of 6 months or less. Arguing for […]
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23 Jan 2019
Plead in Haste, Regret at Leisure
It should go without saying that no plea ought to be entered in any criminal case unless and until the case has been appropriately considered. Regrettably, we see an increasing number of people, who have […]
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26 Sep 2016
Brian Swan writes in The Times Law Brief regarding restorative justice
Partner Brian Swan discusses the need for the Government to boost funding for restorative justice in The Times Law Brief.
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07 Jul 2016
Solicitor Ernest Aduwa examines cybersecurity in The Times
Solicitor Ernest Aduwa’s article, published in The Times, examines why recent MP proposals to tackle cyber crime do not go far enough.
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