Information-gathering overseas

The recovery of assets in a fraud action commonly entails evidence collection and questioning of witnesses overseas. In the first part of a two-part article, Norton Rose, the international law firm, which has its principal office in the City of London, presents the responses that it has received from foreign lawyers in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Gibraltar, India, the Isle of Man, and Liechtenstein to a series of specific questions on local information gathering and use.

Lawyers in a number of foreign jurisdictions were asked to consider the following questions: