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Recovery
Stop-payment instructions or an allegedly lost cheque
Keep the genuine loss or stop-payment record and the underlying transaction. A banking instruction does not by itself determine every criminal or civil consequence.
RecoveryCivil recovery and a cheque-dishonour proceeding
The underlying debt claim and the statutory cheque case have different elements and remedies. One proceeding should not be assumed to preserve every time-sensitive…