Civil fraud
Investment, wire, romance, and online fraud — including claims against the people and businesses that received the money.
How we can help
Litigation, investigation, and the recovery work that follows.
Forecourt assigns the file when the matter is commercial, fraudulent, or both — and when the facts must be gathered to a standard counsel can plead from. On this site, that standard is Canadian. A consultation does not retain anyone; a written mandate comes later.
What we take
The legal work
Trial and appellate advocacy for commercial disputes, civil fraud, investment loss, and the enforcement that follows a judgment — including files other lawyers send when the matter is already serious.
Freezing and tracing orders
Urgent applications to freeze accounts or trace funds before they move again, where the facts and the jurisdiction support one.
Data breach claims
Claims against organisations that failed to protect personal information, brought individually or as part of a group.
Commercial disputes
Contracts, partnerships, and shareholder disputes that need a lawyer prepared to go to court.
Professional negligence
Claims against advisers, brokers, and other professionals whose negligence caused a loss.
Enforcing judgments
Collecting what a court has already awarded, including against assets held in another country.
Same assignment
The investigative work
Licensed, documented, and written so it can be explained under oath. Available around the clock when the facts will not wait.
Asset tracing
Following money and property through public records and lawful inquiry, to a standard a lawyer can use.
Fraud investigation
Establishing who was behind a fraud, how it worked, and where the money went.
Litigation support
Witness statements, locates, and background inquiries for the lawyer on the file.
Due diligence
Background checks on people and companies before money or trust changes hands.
Digital evidence
Preserving and examining devices, accounts, and messages so the evidence holds up.
Surveillance
Lawful, documented observation, where the law of the place allows it.
Recovery
Freezing and tracing money that has moved.
Some files turn on money that has already left — through a bank, an exchange, or a stablecoin. Where the facts support it, the lawyer on the file can ask a court to freeze or trace those funds, or support a police request to the institution that holds them.
Whether anything comes back depends on the case, the jurisdiction, and how quickly action is taken. No one can promise it. On a Canadian file, that application is made in a Canadian court. A file assigned in Italy is a different proceeding, under Italian law. If your matter involves an exchange, a wire, or a stablecoin, say so in the consultation. Assignment follows the facts.
Questions
Before you write.
Assignment stays with Forecourt. The form does not retain anyone. The privacy policy is on this site.
- Do I choose the law firm or the investigators?
- No. Forecourt assigns the file. You answer the questions once. You do not choose counsel versus inquiry as a menu, and you do not begin the work at an operating firm.
- Does submitting the form retain anyone?
- No. A mandate is written later, if at all. A consultation is a first contact. It does not create a solicitor-client or investigator-client relationship and it does not start a limitation strategy.
- How soon will someone reply?
- A principal replies within one business day, and sooner when you mark the matter urgent. The briefing is read and the desk is assigned before anyone is retained.
- Is this confidential?
- Briefings are read by a principal and the assigned desk. We do not publish inquiries. Who sees a submission, and how long it is kept, is in the privacy policy.
- When do fees start?
- Nothing is billed for sending a briefing. Fees start only if you accept a written mandate. How those fees are structured depends on the file and is set out before work begins.
- I already have a lawyer. Can Forecourt still help?
- Yes. Say so in the consultation. Forecourt can assign inquiry in support of existing counsel, additional advocacy, or both. We will not step on a retainer you already have without being asked.
- What if a limitation period or court date is close?
- Put the date in the summary and mark the matter urgent. A consultation does not stop a clock. A principal will read urgent briefings first.
- Are you available after hours? Is inquiry 24/7?
- Inquiry can be assigned around the clock when the facts will not wait. The consultation desk replies within one business day; urgent briefings are read sooner. This is not a 24/7 emergency line for every kind of matter.
- Do you take criminal files? Is this a police filing?
- Forecourt assigns civil and commercial work, and licensed inquiry that can be explained under oath. We do not take a police report for you, and sending a briefing is not a criminal filing. If the facts also engage the criminal law, say so; assignment still happens here.
- Can money that has already moved be frozen or traced?
- Sometimes. Where the facts support it, the lawyer on your file can ask a court to freeze or trace money held by a bank, an exchange, or a stablecoin issuer, or support a police request. Whether anything comes back depends on the case, the jurisdiction, and how quickly action is taken. No one can promise it. If a wire, an exchange, or a stablecoin is involved, say so in the consultation. Write to briefing@web-forecourt.com if a form is the wrong instrument.
- Is this the door for a matter in Italy?
- No. This English site is for Canada. A matter in Italy belongs on the Italian site, under Italian law and European Union law, with lawyers admitted in Italy and investigators licensed there. The sequence is the same: a briefing, then a written mandate. The law applied is not.
Tell us what happened. We will assign the team.