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Seth Caine

Director

Direct line: +44 1624 638356

E-mail: seth.caine@cains.com

Practice Area: Litigation

Qualified 1992 - Manx Advocate
  1982 - Solicitor in England and Wales*


Experience:

Seth is a director of Cains and heads the commercial litigation department. His main areas of practice involve commercial litigation with particular focus on trust disputes, asset tracing & fraud recovery, judicial review and regulatory issues. He advises numerous liquidators on Manx insolvency law and acted on behalf of the Manx liquidator of BCCI in relation to a number of trust issues. He has considerable expertise in relation to Petitions of Doleance (the Manx equivalent to judicial review) and he has appeared in many of the leading commercial cases at the Manx Bar.

In addition, Seth advises the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission on enforcement matters in relation to investment business and banking issues and he acted for the US Securities and Exchange Commission in the recent case of Re Poyiadjis in the Isle of Man High Court.

Seth is a member of the Council of the Isle of Man Law Society, the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists, the International Bar Association, the Human Rights Institute and the Isle of Man Government Insolvency Review Working Party. Seth is also the Isle of Man contributor to the Insolvency Intelligence Journal, a conference speaker on asset tracing in the Isle of Man, and the author of various articles relating to Manx law. He also wrote the chapter on remedies in the Isle of Man in "International Commercial Fraud" (General Editors: Goldspink and Cole) published by Sweet & Maxwell.


Professional Experience:

1990 - to date   Cains, Isle of Man
1985 - 1990   Solicitors Department for the Post Office/National Savings Bank/National Girobank, London
1982 - 1985   Metropolitan Police, Solicitors Department, London

Education:

Nottingham University
Chester College of Law


* Currently non-practising

Seth Caine
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