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10 June 2022
Issue: 7982 / Categories: Legal News , Cyber , Profession
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NLJ this week: Who’s got the key? Bitcoin, hacking & duties of care

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What happens if the owner of Bitcoin loses their private key? (And is the owner really the owner?) The courts recently grappled with this perplexing question, as Malcolm Dowden and Owen Afriye, of Squire Patton Boggs, explain in this week’s NLJ

The case, Tulip Trading, lifted the lid on liability and remedies in the ultra-mysterious (at least to the uninitiated) world of crypto. The court set out their reasons for why Tulip Trading were unlikely to establish that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties. It’s a fast-paced area of law with vast realms of landscape still to be mapped..

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NEWS

Family set expands with the formal integration of 4 Brick Court into 42BR Barristers

The Court of Appeal has issued a stern warning to lawyers engaging in the practice of ‘privilege hunting’—obtaining an opponent’s legally privileged information through dishonest means
Legal executives have given a lukewarm reception to the Legal Services Board’s (LSB’s) final report from its regulatory review into Mazur advice and guidance
A homeless single parent offered accommodation in Derby has lost her Supreme Court appeal against the London council making the offer
The Kingdom of Bahrain does not enjoy sovereign immunity from allegations it used surveillance software to spy on dissidents in the UK, the Supreme Court has held
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