12th July Seminar – ‘Proprietary injunctions: practice and pitfalls’

Outline:

1. Proprietary injunctions; what can be done with alleged trust funds

• ​When a Defendant will be allowed to use alleged trust funds to finance litigation.
• Whether a lawyer is immune from later claims against payment funds.
• The test to be met by a Claimant in such a claim.

Speaker: Paul de la Piquerie

2. Piroozzadeh and other proprietary injunction pitfalls

• The decision in Piroozzadeh v Persons Unknown [2023] EWHC 1024 (Ch), in which a proprietary injunction against a cryptocurrency exchange was discharged on the return date for breach of the duty of fair presentation.
• Issues concerning pooled assets and the bona fide purchaser defence.
• Other types of interim relief against parties not guilty of wrongdoing.

Speaker: Lara Kuehl