In the first part of this series of articles, we examined the progress of English law to shape and build an infrastructure to support the development of a secure and certain environment for investment in digital assets. We considered how recent English case law has addressed the questions of whether cryptoassets are property, and whether they can be held on trust.
In this second instalment, we review jurisdictional issues relating to digital assets. Read the second part of the series on our Blockchain and the Law blog.