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Cryptoasset civil litigation in England and Wales: procedural checklist on parties, injunctions, cross-border jurisdiction, service, enforcement and ADR

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Checklist on cryptoassets

This Checklist on cryptoassets examines matters for dispute resolution practitioners to address when handling claims that touch on cryptoassets. It reviews the principal procedural questions that arise in bringing a civil action where cryptoassets — commonly their retrieval — are implicated in some respect. The distinctive intangibility and cross-border character of cryptocurrencies, enabling actors to exploit the asset and shift it worldwide into less favourable jurisdictions, has rendered them vulnerable to misappropriation and theft and, so, far, the body of caselaw in this field has largely focused on recovering stolen cryptocurrencies. Rulings to date have mostly been confined to the interlocutory stage, yet the English courts have shown an inclination to adopt a flexible stance and to utilise the panoply of procedures and rules available to them in order to support effective efforts at civil recovery...

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Charlotte Hill

Penningtons Manches Cooper

Charlotte is an experienced commercial litigator and is named as a ‘rising star’ in The Legal 500. She is recognised as being ‘tenacious … and a real force of nature’, and is said to be ‘brilliant at case management and marshalling evidence’ with ‘a particular talent for sniffing out the best pieces of evidence in a case’.She advises on a broad range of complex, high-value cross-border disputes across a number of commercial and business sectors, including financial services (having previously been on secondment at a large institutional bank), company disputes, corporate insolvency and civil fraud / asset tracing. In addition, she has recently developed expertise in proceedings involving digital assets, including blockchain, cryptocurrencies and trading platforms / exchanges.Charlotte is the elected president of the Junior London Solicitor Litigation Association, a committee member of the Cyber Insurance Association and a steering committee member of the...

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