Civil Fraud
Alice is most commonly instructed by Defendants in complex cases where fraud is suspected. These range from uncrystallised concerns about exaggeration through to cases where fraud is explicitly pleaded in the defence and applications for committal are made. Her usual caseload has claims involving alleged holiday illness, staged accidents, phantom passengers, exaggeration, low velocity impact and committal applications.
She provides CPD training to major insurers and solicitors’ firms on how to manage suspected fraud from inception through to pleadings, applications, litigation tactics and trial. Where grounds for fraud allegations emerge late, she is often instructed to re-draft defences or to advise on the appropriate applications to make in response. Her extensive case experience includes instances where fraud allegations attached to solicitors and experts as well as claimants.
Civil Fraud Cases
F v An NHS Trust (2024), High Court: acted for the Defendant where fraud was alleged and covert surveillance evidence had been obtained. Settled at Joint Settlement Meeting for £135,000, less than 10% of the claimed amount.
A v An NHS Trust (2024), High Court: acted for the Defendant where the Claimant had failed to pass the embedded anti-fraud effort tests in the neuropsychological assessments and had refused to cooperate with the Defendant’s experts. Claimant sought £1m, but settled at Joint Settlement Meeting for £160,000.
F v An NHS Trust (2024): acted for the Defendant where the Claimant suffered a traumatic brain injury and nearly died, but was later said to be feigning ongoing seizures. Collateral issues included the validity of a diagnosis of a Functional Neurological Disorder and the overlap between neurological and psychiatric diagnoses. Claimant sought £1m, but settled at Joint Settlement Meeting for £180,000.
D v Kone, Deutsche Bank and the Financial Conduct Authority (2023), High Court: acted for the Defendant where medical opinion was divided over whether C was consciously or unconsciously exaggerating.
