Both Martin Kenney, Head of Firm, and Charles Bott KC, Head of Advocacy, chaired panels recently at the 41st Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, held at Jesus College Cambridge in the UK.

Our Head of Investigations, Tony McClements, as well as our barrister Jamie James, and Director of Communications, Nick Ryan, also attended the Symposium.

Panel 1: ‘David & Goliath Unbound’

Taking place on Tuesday 3rd September, this session was on ‘David & Goliath Unbound: A new paradigm for holding banks accountable to victims for enabling fraud’ and was chaired by Martin Kenney.

Panellists included Michele Caratsch of Baldi & Caratsch, Matthew Bradley KC of 4 New Square Chambers, Paul Austin, LLM of HIGHGATE and Dr. Alexander Stein of Dolus Advisors.

Additional thanks to ICC FraudNet for sponsoring this session.

Panel 2: ‘The Post Office IT scandal’

Charles Bott KC, our Head of Advocacy, chaired a keenly-watched workshop of leading lawyers and investigators on Wednesday 4th September, which debated the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, one of the UK’s worst miscarriages of justice.

The session was titled ‘Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: The Post Office scandal is deplorable, but it must not be used as an excuse to end legitimate Private Prosecutions’.

The first half of the workshop was led by Edward Henry KC of Mountford Chambers, who has represented several of the victims of the scandal and delved in detail into some of the appalling ramifications and fallout from the situations they faced.

Kate McMahon of Edmonds Marshall McMahon then discussed the impact of the scandal (which involved many private prosecutions) on private prosecutions in the future, which are being increasingly used in cases involving large scale fraud.

Ian Casewell of Mintz Group rounded off the lively debate with his observations investigating cases against organised crime groups, including those that ended up using private prosecutions.

This was an ICC FraudNet co-hosted session and based on an idea developed by our Head of Investigations, Tony McClements.