This work is concerned with the theory of initial and progressive enlargements of areference filtration \hbox{$\mathbb{F}$} with a random time τ. We provide, under anequivalence assumption, slightly stronger than the absolute continuity assumption ofJacod, alternative proofs to results concerning canonical decomposition of an \hbox{$\mathbb{F}$}-martingalein the enlarged filtrations. Also, we address martingales’ characterization in theenlarged filtrations in terms of martingales in the reference filtration, as well aspredictable representation theorems in the enlarged filtrations.