Laundering and Tracing

Klappentext The legal difficulties arising out of the growing number of money laundering cases reaching the courts are the subject of a burgeoning literature. There is vigorous debate among practitioners, judges and academics as to what the civil courts can do to assist plaintiffs seeking to recover funds in the UK and overseas. This collection of essays, the first on the subject, throws important fresh light on the solutions offered by the common law and equity, and considers the directions in which recent landmark cases are likely to take the law. Zusammenfassung Many legal difficulties arise out of the growing number of money-laundering cases reaching the courts. This collection of essays attempts to throw light on the solutions offered by the common law and equity, and considers the judicial reasoning in recent landmark cases. Inhaltsverzeichnis Equity's Identification Rules The Legal and Moral Limits of Common Law Tracing Tracing, Mixing, and Laundering Tracing the Proceeds of Crime: An Inequitable Solution The Involuntary Launderer: The Banker's Liability for Deposits of the Proceeds of Crime Change of Position After Change of Position: Good Faith Exchange in the Modern Law of Restitution Total Failure of Consideration and Counter-Restitution: Two Issues or One The Nature of Ministerial Receipt Passing On The New Emphasis on Defences

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• Authors: Birks, P. B. H. Birks, Peter Birks, Peter (Regius Professor of Civil Law Birks
• Assisted by: Peter Birks (Editor), Peter B H Birks (Editor), Peter B. H. Birks (Editor), Birks Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.1995
• EAN: 9780198261018
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826101-8
• No. of pages: 388
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, Fraud, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade, Wales / Cymru