Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing Notes

Information orders granted against cryptocurrency exchanges to help trace stolen cryptocurrency

High Court orders delivery up of stolen Bitcoin against crypto exchange

Expansion of the jurisdictional gateways, including a new gateway for Norwich Pharmacal / Bankers Trust claims

Crypto fraud: High Court decision on tracing and enforcing against cryptoassets

Privy Council restatement of the law on freezing and other interim injunctions

High Court considers location of cryptocurrencies and compels disclosure by cryptocurrency exchanges outside the UK

Court of Appeal clarifies jurisdiction to order disclosure in support of freezing injunctions

Very often, when seeking to obtain a freezing injunction, the true extent of the defendant's assets is unclear. Complex and opaque offshore corporate or …

High Court orders foreign defendant to disclose assets worldwide to aid execution

The High Court has reaffirmed its jurisdiction under section 37(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 to compel defendants who are subject to the court's …

High Court revisits the jurisdictional scope of freezing injunctions against third parties

It has long been held that the English court has power to grant a freezing injunction against a third party (against whom no claim lay), provided that it …

Court of Appeal lays down new guidelines on seeking permission to enforce worldwide freezing orders overseas: the Dadourian guidelines

The Court of Appeal has laid down new guidelines on how the court should exercise its discretion when considering whether to permit a party to enforce a …