Civil Fraud

3 Hare Court’s civil fraud team has expertise and strength in depth across all areas of commercial fraud and asset recovery.

Our barristers have acted in several of the most high-profile and high-value civil fraud cases, such as Skatteforvaltningen v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors, JSC Commercial Bank Privatbank v Kolomoisky & Ors, Bourlakova v Bourlakov, Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International, One Blackfriars Limited, National Bank Trust v Yurov, Aeroflot v Berezovsky, and JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov.

We are able to provide teams with multi-jurisdictional and cross-disciplinary technical knowledge who can handle fraud cases from around the world and across related areas such as company law, insolvency, financial services and trusts.

We have expertise in the whole life cycle of a civil fraud and asset recovery case, from the early investigatory phase and the initial applications (e.g. for freezing orders, search orders, and other disclosure relief) through to trial and enforcement.

Areas of expertise include:

Asset tracing and recovery
Breach of fiduciary duty
Breach of trust
Bribery and corruption cases
Conspiracy and deceit
Constructive trust claims
Contempt proceedings
Corporate and international fraud
Directors’ duties
Disclosure, including issues of legal professional privilege

Fraudulent misrepresentation
Fraudulent trading
Freezing and search orders
Injunctions
Investigations
Money laundering
Relief under the Insolvency Act 1986
Restitution
Search and seizure orders
Tracing and following

Members of Chambers are highly recognised by The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners – 2026 UK Bar Guide for London for their expertise and market recognition in Civil Fraud:

Tom Poole KC – Leading Silk
Andrew Barns-Graham – Leading Junior
Daniel Goldblatt – Up and Coming
Nicholas Leah – Rising Star

Details of cases in which our members have acted, or are acting, are set out in each barrister’s profile. Notable cases include:

Skatteforvaltningen v Solo Capital Partners LLP & Ors

Acting for the Danish tax authority in a c.$1.5 billion claim against c.90 defendants. The case relates to fraudulent applications for refunds of dividend withholding tax and has been described by the trial judge as “one of the most complex pieces of litigation in British history”.

JSC Commercial Bank Privatbank v Kolomoisky & Ors

Acted for the corporate defendants in a c.$1.9 billion misappropriation claim brought by a state-owned Ukrainian bank against its former owners (Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov) and six companies. The defendants succeeded in a jurisdiction challenge in 2018 but this decision was reversed by the Court of Appeal in 2019. The trial took place between June and November 2023 and judgment was handed down in July 2025. The case was included in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022.

Bourlakova v Bourlakov

Represented a respondent to freezing and proprietary injunction applications in a wider $3.7 billion civil fraud claim.

Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International

acting on behalf of members of the Credit Suisse Deal Team in a multi-billion dollar civil fraud claim concerning the enforceability of state guarantees (described by The Lawyer as one of the top 20 cases of 2023).

Segulah Medical Acceleration v Tripathi & Or

Representing one of the defendants to multimillion dollar and multiparty civil fraud claims arising out of the purchase of shares in a medical technology company.

Henry Construction Projects Limited (in administration) v Henry & Ors

Representing defendants in claims worth over £10 million with allegations of breach of fiduciary duty, knowing receipt and fraud.

Paul Girvan v Paralaw (UK) Ltd and British Telecommunications plc

Acting for the first defendant in breach of contract and unlawful means conspiracy claims quantified by the claimant at over £10 million.

Mex Group Worldwide Limited v Duthie & Anor (2025) EWHC 1360 (KB)

Acted for the for the defendants, Duthie and Duthie Consultants Limited, in this litigation concerning alleged breaches of contractual and non-contractual duties of confidence by a solicitor. Following a heavy two-day application argued before Kerr J in April 2025, the Duthie parties successfully resisted strike out and/or summary judgment, with Kerr J delivering a notable decision concerning the scope of a solicitor’s duty of confidence to his client, and the arguability of defences to a claim in breach of confidence upon the bases of the iniquity exception or a general duty to disclose.

Attorney General of the Bahamas v Jonathan Reid and Others (2024) UKPC 30

Acting for the Respondents in an appeal to the Privy Council concerning restraint orders and associated relief granted following MLAT requests by the US DOJ, following a substantial $20 million fraud against Boeing in the USA. Read the Judgment here.

Mountain Ash Portfolio v Vasilyev

Acting for a corporate trustee in a claim against a very high net worth Russian individual pursuant to a shareholders’ guarantee worth c.$120m.

Civil Fraud barristers

Mark Strachan KC SC

Call: 1969Silk: 1987 | SC: 2013 (HK)

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3 Hare Court’s civil fraud team has expertise and strength in depth across all areas of commercial fraud and asset recovery.

Members of Chambers are highly recognised by The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners – 2026 UK Bar Guide for London for their expertise and market recognition in Civil Fraud:

Details of cases in which our members have acted, or are acting, are set out in each barrister’s profile. Notable cases include:

Civil Fraud barristers

Mark Strachan KC SC

Peter Knox KC

Thomas Roe KC

Tom Poole KC

Daniel Feetham KC

Tim Prudhoe KC

William Evans

Richard Samuel

Robert Strang

Rowan Pennington-Benton

Benjamin Channer

Christopher Loxton

Stephen Hackett

Charles Sorensen

Charlotte Pope-Williams

Andrew Barns-Graham

Jas Jandu FCIArb

Emily Moore

Daniel Goldblatt

James Gale

Georgia Purnell

Samuel McNeil

Katharine Bailey

Anna Lancy

Rory Turnbull

Nicholas Leah

Tabitha Hutchison

Anna Gatrell

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