Law, crime and regulation
Legal cases, stolen art, regulation and tax issues remain important part of the art and antiques sector.
This category ranges from the levy of the Artist’s Resale Right to controversies over fakes and forgeries.
Cotswolds centre burglary appeal
25 January 2016Thames Valley Police are appealing for information following a burglary at the Quiet Woman Antique Centre near Chipping Norton.
Four charged over Stamford ‘fraud’
25 January 2016Four people have been charged following an investigation into fraud at Stuart Porter Antiques in Stamford, which began in late 2013.
Antiques trade targeted by scam guides again
21 January 2016Dealers are again being targeted by scam guides that seek to extort large sums of money in return for inclusion in worthless trade listings.
Police appeal for information after Goodwood House theft
18 January 2016Police investigating a break-in at Goodwood House, the Chichester home of Lord and Lady March, are appealing for information and to trace irreplaceable stolen jewellery.
Rogue bidder returns to regions
18 January 2016Regional auctioneers are being warned that a man who left a trail of unpaid bills a decade ago is again making rogue bids with no means of paying.
California collectors take on the state over ivory ban
15 January 2016Ivory collectors in California are suing the state in the hope of overturning restrictive legislation that comes in to force on July 1 this year.
Police seek owners of stolen antiques
14 January 2016Police are hoping to trace the owners of antiques they believe are stolen property.
Neville and Mallett New York branch tied to embezzlement case
31 December 2015The New York branch of Mallett and the company’s former director in the Big Apple, Henry Neville, are embroiled in the case brought by US authorities against Robert A Olins, the disgraced former chief executive of a technology company.
Tough sentences issued after south of England thefts
31 December 2015Three men have been sentenced to jail for their parts in a spree of antiques thefts perpetrated in January 2014 across the south of England.
BADA to campaign against quarterly tax returns
31 December 2015The British Antique Dealers’ Association is p09nning to mount a campaign with other business bodies to halt a government plan to require all businesses, regardless of size, to file tax returns on a quarterly, digital basis rather than annually.
Commission suggest legal definition for ‘antique’ firearms
23 December 2015The Law Commission, the independent body which reviews laws in England and Wales, have recommended to the government that the term ‘antique firearm’ be defined in statute for the first time.
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Grosvenor Print forger sentenced
21 December 2015A retired academic and art lecturer has been handed a six-month suspended sentence after admitting to forging a number of Grosvenor School linocut prints and attempting to pass them off as genuine through various auction houses.
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Appeal after £20,000 Honiton theft
15 December 2015Silver and jewellery with a total value of around £20,000 was stolen in a raid at Chilcotts auctioneers in Honiton, Devon, in the early hours of Friday, December 4.
Dealer dies in Abingdon stabbing
14 December 2015The art and antiques trade is mourning the loss of prints dealer Justin Skrebowski, who was murdered in what appears to have been a random knife attack in Abingdon.
Blackamoor waiter removed after Twitter backlash
14 December 2015An antiques shop owner in Kent has removed a blackamoor sign from outside her shop after social media users claimed it was offensive.
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Narwhal tusk returned by Border Force
08 December 2015An antique narwhal tusk that faced destruction following a dispute over paperwork has been returned to its owner after a judge ruled its confiscation by customs had been “unreasonable”.
Ivory research project launched
03 December 2015Senior figures from both UK dealing associations gave an impassioned defence of the antiques trade as a project seeking to gauge the impact of a ban on the sale of ivory works of art was launched in Westminster last week.
SOFAA issue new T&Cs for online selling
02 December 2015In response to the new Consumer Rights Act, the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers have produced two different versions of their model terms and conditions – one for bricks and mortar ‘onsite’ auctions and another for online-only sales.
Cultural property law to be debated in German parliament
30 November 2015The German Cultural Property and Heritage Protection Law (Kulturschutzgesetz) is due to be debated in the German Bundestag next spring after a “defused” draft of the law received cabinet approval on November 4.
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Nazi looted Houdon bust returns to Poland
20 November 2015A late 18th century bust of the Goddess Diana which was looted from the Royal Lazienki Palace in Warsaw by the Nazis has been returned to Poland after emerging at auction in Vienna.
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