by Jessica | Mar 27, 2012 | Art Law, Crime
The Antiques Trade Gazette dated 26th March 2012 reports that on 20th April, 4 people will appear at Swindon Crown Court for a pleas and directions hearing for a series of fraud charges that involve using foreign based credit cards to bid in high value jewellery...
by Jessica | Mar 18, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Fakes and Forgeries
There is an ongoing investigation by French police in relation to forged works of original works by Jean Prouvé. A man was arrested in January this year and is charged with the counterfeiting of intellectual property and faces other forgery charges. This is a case...
by Jessica | Mar 18, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Restitution
Cultural heritage issues spark up again over the strange case of the attempted sale of Saddam Hussein’s bronze bottom This was a strange cultural heritage case for 2011 that concerned the Saddam Hussein monument from central Baghdad that was famously brought down in...
by Jessica | Mar 18, 2012 | Art Lawyer, Disputed Title, Jurisdiction, Restitution
An interesting pending restitution case, where ownership is disputed, concerns Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man with a Cane. The Art Newspaper, in their issue 233, March 2012 has provided an update in this case as an interesting legal twist takes place. Mr...
by Jessica | Mar 17, 2012 | Art Law, Art Lawyer, Cultural Heritage, Restitution
Germany’s Highest Court rules that German museum must return art work stolen by the Nazis On Friday 16th March the Highest Court in Germany, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ruled that the German Historical Museum must return to Peter Sachs, a US Citizen,...
