Legal Cases

The administrator to collapsed Australian auction house Mossgreen has lost a court case over fees which means goods can be returned to their rightful owners without fees being due.

A London art dealer has been named in a $50m securities fraud and money-laundering court case in New York following a sting led by an undercover FBI agent.

A dispute between Dallas-based Heritage Auctions and Christie’s over the employment of Matthew Rubinger and two colleagues is heading to a US court.

A Tetbury antiques dealer and his father have been convicted for a burglary of a jewellery shop in Gloucestershire.

Sotheby’s have said they will “vigorously challenge” any attempt by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev to bring a claim against it in the UK.

Auctioneer turned art advisor Simon de Pury has won his court case over the payment of a $10m fee.

Recovered from a US buyer, three historic cannons are returning to Southend for a new exhibition.

The ongoing legal dispute between Dmitry Rybolovlev, the vendor of Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ which sold this month for $450m at Christie’s New York, and the Swiss businessman Yves Bouvier from whom he acquired it may be heading to the UK courts.

A huge collection of manuscripts from investment scheme Aristophil will finally be resold in Paris after a two-year wait.

The conviction of a firearms dealer from Gloucestershire has highlighted the problem of antique weapons being adapted for criminal use.

An antiques dealer from Wimbledon has been arrested and charged following the death of a seven-year-old girl.

Dorchester auction firm Duke’s has been ordered to pay £18,275 after advertising fake works it claimed were by Cornish artist Alfred Wallis (1855-1942).

A review by a High Court judge into the go-ahead for the redevelopment of a Victorian timber yard in Pimlico Road will begin today in London.

A Poundland notebook helped convict a fraudster attempting to sell fake antiques through auction houses in London and Essex.

A man from Sunderland who forged the work of local artist Norman Cornish (1919-2014) has been ordered to repay £1.