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Rosie Adcock interviewed on BBC Radio 4 – Front Row Programme

Yesterday evening, Associate, Rosie Adcock appeared on BBC Radio 4, Front Row Programme discussing the topic of art theft and the Art Loss Register. Reporter, Carolyn Atkinson talks to Rosie about the new figures that reveal that 65,000 items are currently missing from museums around the world, how the law will treat future ownership of such stolen items, the concept of good faith purchases and the rights of a victim as against the thief.

The segment with Rosie starts at 28:00 and can be accessed here

New figures compiled exclusively for Front Row reveal that 65,000 items are currently missing from museums around the world and listed on the Art Loss Register. Carolyn Atkinson goes on the trail of one of those missing artworks, a painting stolen during a brazen art heist in 1989, that has just been returned to a Glasgow museum.

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art, art law, litigation, dispute resolution