Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing Notes

Information orders granted against cryptocurrency exchanges to help trace stolen cryptocurrency

Injunctions against "Persons Unknown": The High Court flags uncertain territory

High Court grants freezing injunction in relation to stolen non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

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

Letters of request from foreign courts: High Court orders disclosure to assist Canadian civil fraud action

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

Knowing receipt: Court of Appeal clarifies the necessary elements

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 finds claimant breached search order by keyword searching and considers interplay between search and imaging orders

In a recent decision the Court of Appeal has re-emphasised that the purpose of a search order (formerly known as an Anton Piller order) is to preserve …

Post-judgment worldwide freezing order granted against defendant who had advanced a fabricated defence at trial

In the case of GML International Ltd v Harfield [2020] 7 WLUK 362, the High Court granted a post-judgment worldwide freezing order against a judgment …

High Court grants proprietary injunction against Bitcoin exchange holding proceeds of ransomware attack

The High Court has held that cryptoassets (in this case Bitcoin) can be treated as property under English law. As such, the owner of a cryptoasset can, …