How should cryptocurrency assets / digital tokens be valued in assessing damages?
When should the digital assets be valued for determining quantum of compensation?
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How should cryptocurrency assets / digital tokens be valued in assessing damages?
When should the digital assets be valued for determining quantum of compensation?
If a company’s website’s terms of use include an arbitration clause, can the company enforce this against a user suing it in the Singapore court to stay the proceedings in favour of arbitration? As always, it depends.
Our team has subject matter expertise in legal, technical, and economic aspects of blockchain-related matters, including token sales, listings, and issuances, SAFTs, real-world asset tokenisation projects, token exchanges, digital asset and on-chain tracing, crypto-related insolvency, and crypto fraud and scams. As Singapore lawyers, we’ve handled cryptocurrency claims involving persons from different jurisdictions/countries and cross-border elements.
In this article (also accessible at Covenant Chambers’ website), we set out various legal issues, considerations and approaches regarding various types of blockchain and crypto disputes and transactions.
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This article explains everything a founder, CEO, Board Director, manager, or executive would typically encounter in starting and running a business.
Beyond mere information, we share practical guidance and insights from experience.
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Significance: Singapore Court of Appeal clarifies the law on breach of confidence, when wrongful gain and wrongful loss damages may be claimed for same or different sets of information, and pleadings for such claims.
Can the use of a competitor’s name in your Google ad words amount to intellectual property / trademark infringement and passing off?
Maybe.
In this significant judgment, the Honourable Goh Yihan J proffers observations about the principles on the application of s 438 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (IRDA).
S 438 empowers the Court to make orders in respect of undervalue transactions which are for the purpose of putting assets beyond the reach of creditors or otherwise prejudicing the interests of any creditor.
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In Blomberg, Johan Daniel v Khan Zhi Yan [2023] SGHC 238, the General Division of the High Court of Singapore (per See Kee Oon J) considered the legal principles on when a consent order may be set aside: [38]-[45].
He distinguished between (a) a “contractual consent order” and an “uncontested consent order”; and (b) a “procedural consent order” and a “substantive consent order”.
In sum, contractual consent orders can only be interfered with on grounds of contract law vitiating factors. The court has no residual discretion to set aside or not enforce substantive contractual consent orders.
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