FINANCIAL FRAUDSTER NEWS EXCLUSIVE: UK Court Accused of "Procedural Ambush" to Defraud US Company - ‘Magic Circle’ Law Firm and UK Judge Conspire in "Abuse of Process," Alleges Damning Witness Statement
PUBLIC OFFICE FRAUD | 11 NOVEMBER 2025 | FFN INVESTIGATIONS
WYOMING, USA - LONDON, UK – The UK justice system is facing explosive allegations of corruption and abuse of process after a County Court judge sanctioned an "ambush" hearing, giving a US-based company less than one business day to respond to a major fraud application.
A damning witness statement filed today, and obtained by Financial Fraudster News, accuses "Magic Circle" law firm Freshfields LLP of using the court to "steamroll" a case in a "desperate and fraudulent act". The motive, alleges the statement, is to obtain a UK court order to help its client, General Dynamics UK (GDUK), defend itself from an active US Criminal Wire Fraud Complaint.
The 48-Hour "Ambush"
On 10 November 2025, His Honour Judge Tracy Bloom issued an order scheduling a complex 3-hour hearing for 10:00 am on 12 November 2025.
This order gives the opposing parties—including the US-based Capitana Seas 2008 Trust—less than 48 hours to:
Receive and comprehend a "substantial bundle of evidence" from Freshfields;
Instruct UK solicitors and counsel from overseas;
Review the "complex and baseless allegations"; and
Prepare a substantive legal response.
The witness statement of Hal Marks, an agent for the Defendant (The State of Libya), slams the move as a "procedural ambush" and a "fundamental denial of the right to a fair hearing".
In a shocking display of judicial hypocrisy, the order "is in direct and irreconcilable conflict with [the Court's] own procedural rules". The court's own N244A Notice of Hearing form explicitly states that bundles should be lodged "no earlier than 7 working days before the hearing". HHJ Bloom has instead allowed just one working day.
A "Fraudulent" Application to Cover a US Crime
Marks's statement alleges the application by GDUK and Freshfields is an "abuse of process" built on "material falsehoods".
Freshfields claims the original case was a "collusive" action to steal a £10M+ property. Marks refutes this as "demonstrably false," stating the claim was a simple £3,000 money claim intended to lawfully expose a previous fraud committed in 2011.
The statement alleges the true motive for GDUK's "urgent" application is anything but just:
"As GDUK and Freshfields are aware, they are the named Defendants in a US Criminal Wire Fraud Complaint... Its true purpose is not to 'intervene' but to deceive this Court... hoping to obtain a UK order they can use to defend themselves from criminal prosecution in the United States."
A Pattern of State-Level Misconduct
This incident is not isolated. Marks's statement explicitly connects this "bad-faith" application to a wider pattern of state-level interference in Libyan-connected matters, first exposed by Financial Fraudster News.
The statement references our previous investigation into the scandal at HMP Wayland, where 80,000 legally privileged documents "were found to be missing from supposedly 'secure storage'". Those documents, belonging to a "former Libyan broker," were vital to proving his innocence.
That loss was described as a "deliberate, systemic attempt to cover up a monumental miscarriage of justice" which could only be authorized by "a government at its highest level".
Today's events suggest that the same corrupt machinery is once again at work, this time using the courts themselves to "ride roughshod" over the law.
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