ABLI-SAL Cryptoasset Series – Cryptoassets and Property Law (common law edition)

ABLI-SAL Cryptoasset Series – Cryptoassets and Property Law (common law edition)

Author: Dr Jason Allen

Associate Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Asian Business Law Institute and Singapore Academy of Law

April 2023

Please contact info@abli.asia for queries relating to this publication. 

The Cryptoassets and Property Law (common law edition) sets out the case law to date on the property law treatment of cryptoassets in Australia, India, Malaysia and New Zealand. It can be read as a supplement to the Cryptoassets and Property Law (Singapore edition).

With internal and external hyperlinks that direct readers to relevant resources at one-click, this report is easy to navigate and suitable for legal and non-legal professionals alike.

More detailed analysis is available in the Cryptoassets and Property Law (Singapore edition) https://payhip.com/b/tWBIK.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Understanding cryptoassets

Legal definition of cryptoassets

Understanding property law in the common law legal tradition

Real property

Personal property

Choses in possession

Choses in action

Understanding cryptoasset judgments by the common law courts

Cryptoasset judgments by the courts of Australia, India, Malaysia and New Zealand

Hague v Cordiner (No. 2)

Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police v Bigatton

Seribu Pty Ltd and Commissioner of Taxation

Chen v Blockchain Global Ltd; Abel v Blockchain Global Ltd

Cahill & Cahill

Internet and Mobile Association of India v Reserve Bank of India

Robert Ong Thien Cheng v Luno Pte. Ltd. & Anor

Ruscoe v Cryptopia Ltd (in liq)

Understanding the importance of the cryptoasset judgments of the courts of Australia, India, Malaysia and New Zealand

Understanding the problems

Law reform efforts in progress

References

Cases

Statutes

White papers

Secondary sources

Other materials