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Cryptocurrencies and trusts: Watch and learn
Daniel Scott analyses a civil fraud case that may serve as a precursor for similar cases in the private client sphere on the misappropriation of cryptocurrencies The concession made in this case is to favour the trust analysis such that it is now relatively uncontroversial to view cryptocurrencies as property capable of being held on …
Cases Referenced
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- AA v Persons Unknown & ors [2019] EWHC 3556 (Comm)
- Bieber & ors v Teathers Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1466; [2013] WTLR 1 CA
- Goldcorp Exchange Ltd (in receivership) & ors v Liggett & ors [1994] UKPC 3
- Hunter v Moss [1993] EWCA Civ 11
- Ion Science Ltd v Persons Unknown & ors (2020) unreported, Commercial Court, Butcher J, 21 December
- Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) Ltd [2010] EWHC 2914 (Ch); WTLR (w) 2010-12
- Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1544
- Ruscoe v Cryptopia Ltd (in liquidation) [2020] NZHC 728; [2021] WTLR 965 NZHC
- Wang v Darby [2021] EWHC 3054; [2022] WTLR 327 QBD
- White v Shortall [2006] NSWSC 1379