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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19 Oct 2023
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors ranked in Chambers & Partners UK 2024
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors has been ranked for its Crime, POCA Work & Asset Forfeiture expertise in the Chambers & Partners UK 2024 Guide.
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29 Sep 2022
Stokoe Partnership ranked in The Legal 500 UK Guide 2023
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors has been ranked in The Legal 500 UK 2023 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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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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13 Oct 2021
Stokoe continues growth with the acquisition of two more criminal defence solicitors
Specialist criminal defence and litigation boutique law firm, Stokoe Partnership Solicitors, today announces the appointment of two new solicitors, Abigail Ashford from Reeds Solicitors and Antony Lane from law firm Leslie Franks. These appointments follow […]
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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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13 Apr 2021
Specialist financial crime and extradition partner joins Stokoe Partnership Central London office
Stokoe Partnership Solicitors is delighted to announce the appointment of Richard Cannon as a partner to its Central London offices. Richard joins Stokoe Partnership Solicitors from Gunnercooke, where he was a partner. Prior to this […]
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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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25 Feb 2020
Update regarding Dr Duško Knežević extradition hearing
The Chief Magistrate at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot, today granted an application on behalf of our client Dr Knezevic to put back the extradition hearing in his case, following difficulties we […]
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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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09 Jan 2020
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments in The Times re Carlos Ghosn
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou comments in relation to Carlos Ghosn fleeing Japan and its justice system, and whether Ghosn may seek to be tried in France instead, in The Times.
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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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08 Nov 2019
Bambos Tsiattalou discusses the FCA’s proposed change to the regulation system
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou discusses the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and its proposed radical change to the system.
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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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08 Oct 2019
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou examines London Capital & Finance in the FT Adviser
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou discusses the risk of investing in ethical or alternative investment schemes and the regulatory consequences of the collapse of London Capital & Finance.
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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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16 Sep 2019
Cyber crime of more concern to lawyers than Brexit – The Times
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou, and Solicitor Ernest Aduwa discuss the recent findings that cyber crime has now become a larger concern than Brexit for lawyers over the past year.
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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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02 Sep 2019
Companies should not ignore possibility of modern slavery in UK
Partner Maria Theodoulou explains why companies should not ignore the possibility of UK suppliers as a modern slavery risk, in The Barrister.
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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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23 Jul 2019
Even data in the cloud hacked via Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft
Solicitor Ernest Aduwa comments in SC Magazine regarding the recent development that NSO Group are data harvesting from servers of any global service.
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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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01 Jul 2019
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou attends the Legal Business Commercial Litigation Summit 2019
Partner Bambos Tsiattalou is today attending the Legal Business Commercial Litigation Summit 2019.
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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
New Anti-Terrorism Powers
The Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 has completed its parliamentary journey and will, in the main, come in to effect over the next few months. The Home Secretary Sajid Javid claims that the Act: […]
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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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08 Feb 2019
Ernest Aduwa comments in SC Magazine regarding motor industry cyber security flaws
Solicitor Ernest Aduwa comments in SC Magazine in relation to a motor industry report highlighting cyber security flaws in the sector.
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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
Fly-tipping – ensuring all polluters pay
We all know that fly-tipping is an offence, but did you know you commit an offence if you pass waste to someone who isn’t licensed? What do you mean by ‘waste’? This article is referring […]
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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
Parental Dilemmas That Could Land You in Prison
It is a nightmare scenario that potentially any parent could face. A child returns home, late at night in an agitated state. He hurriedly tells you that he has been in a fight, it […]
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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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19 Dec 2018
Computer hacking
Hacking has been in the news a great deal in the last couple of years, for example, the 2016 US Presidential Elections, the extradition case of Lauri Love and the hacking of user accounts of […]
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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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21 Jun 2016
Ernest Aduwa comments in relation to a select committee report on the 2015 TalkTalk data breach
Solicitor Ernest Aduwa comments in Computer Weekly in relation to a select committee report on cyber security and 2015 TalkTalk data breach.
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