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Cybercrime And Conveyancing: Safe as houses?
First money laundering, then mortgage fraud, and now conveyancer hacking. Alasdair Urwin and Sandip Singh explain the latest fraud risks of which lenders, borrowers and conveyancers should be aware ‘In what are being described as some of the most worrying scams seen by the SRA, fraudsters are hacking into law firm e-mail accounts and intercepting …
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- Excel Securities plc v Masood [2009] EWHC 3912 (QB)
- LSC Finance Ltd v Abensons Law Ltd [2015] EWHC 1163 (Ch)
- Midland Bank plc v Cox McQueen [1999] PNLR 593
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