“A University of Bath registrar who offered forged degrees to young black women in exchange for spanking sessions to satisfy his sexual fetishes has avoided jail at court.”
The Independent, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A legal adviser tricked two estranged couples into believing they had been divorced in order to pocket their fees.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Black Country solicitor faces jail after stealing £90,000 from a blind widow and spending the money on luxury items including a pedigree ‘teacup’ chihuahua.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The mastermind behind a fake document scam which raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds from immigrants seeking to stay in the United Kingdom has today been jailed for four-and-half years after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.”
UK Border Agency, 29th September 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
Masood and others v Zahoor and others [2009] EWCA 650; [2009] WLR (D) 231
“Where a claimant relied on a forged document he forfeited the right to have an adjudication of his claim, and it was irrelevant that the defendant also relied on forged documents. There was no weighing or balancing exercise to be carried out.”
WLR Daily, 7th July 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The first person to be prosecuted by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over falsifying an application for authorisation to sell financial products has been given a suspended sentence.”
The Times, 18th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An immigrant who was sent to an adult prison because he lied about his age on a fake passport is suing the Home Office for ‘unlawful detainment’.”
BBC News, 19th August 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports.”
The Times, 6th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Two conmen who forged and sold the autographs of some of Britain’s biggest sports stars were jailed yesterday.”
The Times, 4th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A woman who hired a yacht using a certificate she downloaded from Facebook has been questioned by police and cautioned under the Fraud Act.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th February 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“Sports fans were conned into spending thousands of pounds on forged autographs of their heroes, including a fake Michael Owen cup final shirt and signed photographs of David Beckham and Jonny Wilkinson, Chester Crown Court was told yesterday.”
The Times, 8th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An octogenarian woman and her son were sentenced on Friday for one of the largest, longest lasting and most diverse art scams ever in Britain, forging paintings, sculptures, carvings and statues.”
Reuters, 16th November 2007
Source: www.reuters.com
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