Dishonoured cheques are a reoccurring problem and are on the rise since the onset of the financial crisis. As a result, there has been a sharp increase in criminal cases and complaints filed with the ...

Abu Dhabi: Dishonoured security cheques can no longer be used to arrest defaulters and convict them, in keeping with a decree by the President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a senior ...

In T v W (HCA 366/2020, [2020] HKCFI 2918), the Hong Kong Court of First Instance considered the interesting question of whether a claim made on a dishonoured cheque was caught by and fell within the ...

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal has refused to stay to arbitration a court action brought on a dishonoured cheque because of an arbitration clause in the underlying loan agreement between the parties.

A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of a former member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Aliyu Gebi, before ...

The Karnataka High Court has ruled that individuals who issue cheques cannot avoid prosecution by claiming that a complaint was filed prematurely before the 15-day statutory period under Section 138(c ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that a cheque is dishonoured only if it represents a “legally enforceable debt” on the date of its maturity or presentation. “For the commission of an offence under ...

The local commercial banks have recently adopted a voluntary Code of Conduct which sets out minimum standards and principles of good banking practice when they deal with cheques that are dishonoured ...

A Dhaka court on Sunday issued an arrest warrant against Bangladesh's renowned all-rounder and politician, Shakib Al Hasan, in connection with a dishonoured cheque case involving IFIC Bank. The arrest ...