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Litigation funding is a relatively young business, although in the past 10 years it grew out of the infant phase and gained some mainstream reputation with the investing public. Legal claims, professionally managed, are now an asset class for hedge funds. Following several successful placements by litigation funders (a recent £200M fundraising by Therium Capital […]

Eight years of litigation came to close last year as the Italian Supreme Court acquitted Amanda Knox and her co-defendant Raffeale Sollecito of charges that they were involved in the murder of Knox’s roommate, Meredith Kercher. Numerous books, countless magazine articles and a veritable avalanche of internet traffic was generated by the case. In the process, […]

Injustice Anywhere, an all-volunteer organization working to bring more attention to wrongful convictions, has added the Brendan Dassey case to their list of Endorsed Cases. Brendan Dassey was convicted in Wisconsin on March 17, 2007, of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse, and first-degree sexual assault. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison, with a chance for […]

The Russell “Russ” Faria murder retrial began quietly on Monday in Troy, Missouri. Faria was convicted in 2013 of murdering his terminally ill wife, Elizabeth “Betsy” Faria, in 2011. The Missouri Eastern District Court of Appeals threw out Faria’s conviction in February of this year, based on claims of improperly suppressed evidence and alleged prosecutorial misconduct, paving […]

Supporters for Nicole “Nyki” Kish were optimistic last year when the fifth estate, Canada’s premier investigative journalism show, decided to investigate her case. As part of their investigation, the show requested to film an interview with Kish at the Grand Valley Prison where she is currently being housed. Unfortunately, Nancy Kinsman, the prison warden, denied […]

The murder of Yara Gambirasio Yara Gambirasio was a 13 years old girl of Brembate, a small town in the province of Bergamo, in Northern Italy, who disappeared on November 26, 2010, and whose corpse was found in an open field in the nearby Chignolo three months later, on February 26, 2011. The murder triggered […]