Conflict of laws - Challenge to jurisdiction - Pre-trial or post-judgment relief - Freezing order

Madoff Securities International Ltd and another v Raven and others: QBD (Comm) (Mr Justice Flaux): 25 November 2011

The matter originated from an extremely large-scale fraud perpetrated by M, to which he had confessed in December 2008. M had controlled, among other things, two companies, MSIL (the first claimant) and BLMIS. M had used MSIL, among other things, to launder money.

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