Fountain Court’s Nik Yeo has published a detailed analysis of the important crypto fraud judgment in D’Aloia v Persons Unknown & Bitkup [2024] EWHC 2342 (Ch) in the Journal of International Banking and Finance Law entitled “Crypto Exchanges: An update on D’Aloia”, which can be found here. In this article, Nik examines how that judgment clarifies and extends some previously established contractual and proprietary principles in relation to liability of crypto exchanges to victims of crypto fraud.
Nik has also contributed the chapter entitled “Interim Remedies in Crypto Fraud Cases” in the new Hart-published text Digital Assets in Enforcement and Insolvency (ed Koller and Lehmann), due for publication in February 2025, see here. In this chapter, Nik discusses the range of interim relief available to victims of crypto fraud, including the significant case of Tai Mo Shan Ltd v Persons Unknown, mentioned briefly here.
