Fraud Forensic Accountants for Civil Fraud Solicitors

What Civil Fraud Solicitors Need

Expert evidence for freezing injunction applications, asset tracing analysis, civil recovery proceeds calculations, and CPR Part 35 compliant expert reports for High Court civil fraud proceedings.

Freezing Injunction Support

Speed is critical: assets can be dissipated within hours. Our fraud forensic accountants provide urgent preliminary quantum assessments and asset tracing evidence for without-notice freezing injunction applications in the High Court.

Asset Tracing Methodology

1. Financial record analysis (bank statements, investment accounts)
2. Corporate structure mapping (entity relationships, beneficial ownership)
3. Transaction tracing (fund flows through accounts and entities)
4. Asset identification (properties, vehicles, investments)
5. Cross-border tracing (offshore accounts, foreign properties)
6. Crypto and digital asset tracing

Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWO)

UWOs are available to the SFO, NCA, HMRC, CPS, and FCA for assets over £50,000 where there are reasonable grounds to suspect the holder lacks legitimate income to have obtained them. Contesting a UWO requires High Court advocacy and forensic accounting to trace the audit trail of acquisition funds. For claimant solicitors, our experts assist with financial evidence establishing grounds for application. For respondents, we assist with rebuttal by tracing legitimate sources of wealth.

Civil Recovery Under POCA

Part 5 POCA allows civil recovery of property obtained through unlawful conduct without requiring criminal conviction, on the balance of probabilities. Fraud forensic accountants establish financial evidence supporting or defending civil recovery applications.

Private Prosecution

For victims of significant fraud where police decline to act, private prosecution is an increasingly used route. Fraud forensic accountants build the financial evidence package: tracing the fraud, quantifying the loss, and producing prosecution-quality forensic accounting evidence.