Posted on: March 2, 2016 by Emily Gould
News broke this week that fourteen men have been convicted of plotting to steal artefacts from UK museums estimated to be worth up to £57 million. After a four-year police operation, the final four defendants – the ‘generals’ of the gang – were brought to justice at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday. They’ll be sentenced […]
Posted on: September 28, 2015 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper
To all IAL blog readers who would like up-to-the-minute art and antiquities updates, you can now follow us on Twitter. Our handle is @IAL_art_law. See you on the other side! You can also find us on Facebook. And of course, the blog is here to stay…
Posted on: September 3, 2015 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper
Our friends at the Franco-British Lawers Society (England & Wales section) will be hosting a free event in London on 9 October entitled ‘The Art of Advising – Art Law in Practice‘. The event will be held at Notre Dame University, London campus (famous venue for a number of IAL courses and conferences) and will run […]
Posted on: February 26, 2014 by Nina M. Neuhaus
The Police have recovered one of two items stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) in the autumn of 2011. The recovered item is a limestone Persian Achaemenid Bas Relief panel dating from the 5th century BC and depicting the head of a guard. Remarkably, the thief was able to steal the small-scale (21 […]