Legally reclaiming your losses
RLP provides Civil Recovery services in each legal jurisdiction: Scotland,
England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands and the
Isle of Man.
Civil recovery is the use of the civil law remedies to reclaim, directly from a
wrongdoer, all costs and expenses incurred in relation to acts of theft or other
wrongful conduct as well as the costs associated with the prevention and
investigation of such acts. Civil recovery can be used in addition to or
independent of criminal action.
There is a mistaken belief that, just because a company recovers its property
following a theft, it has suffered no loss. The recovery of property/money,
however, does not take into account the costs incurred in apprehending the
wrongdoer and in connection with putting in place surveillance measures to
prevent future thefts of goods and/or money. Legally, as part of the civil
recovery process, a company may seek to recover all of its consequential losses.
RLP has tested these principles by successfully taking wrongdoers to court on
behalf of our clients to create precedent test cases and recover compensation.