Topic: Cryptoassets

Discussing the Court's decision in Payward Inc and Others v Chechetkin [2023] EWHC 1780 (Comm).

Adam Sanitt has written a briefing discussing the highly anticipated Law Commission’s Digital assets: Final report.

Discussing the first reported decision in which freezing injunctions relating to misappropriation of crypto-assets initially granted on a without notice basis have been discharged by the High Court on their return date.

Discussing the latest decision in the Tulip Trading v van der Laan litigation.

Our Banking Litigation Trends publication summarising the trends we saw in 2022, and the key risks we anticipate banks and financial institutions may face in 2023.

In LMN v Bitflyer Holdings Inc and others [2022] EWHC 2954 (Comm), the High Court granted powerful ‘information orders’ under the court’s Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust jurisdiction against cryptocurrency exchanges that are competitors to the claimant-applicant LMN.

A consultation paper lays the foundation for treating digital assets as legal property under English law

A discussion of potential causes of action that may arise from both algorithmic and traditional asset-backed stablecoins and sets out the risk factors associated with litigation involving blockchain technology.

Adam Sanitt and Jonathan Hawkins joined this month’s episode of our firm’s FinTech Pulse podcast to discuss how a recent investigation by the UK law commission into how the current law of contract applies to smart legal contracts.

While the High Court declined to order security in bitcoin, the decision leaves the door open to future applications.