On 7 July 2020 Parker J, sitting in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, handed down his written reasons for orders that he had made earlier this year in favour of Raiffeisen International Bank AG (‘RBI’), which amongst other things continued a worldwide freezing order (“WFO”) and notification injunction against the NYSE-listed Cayman parent company, Scully Royalty Limited (“SRL”), of the MFC Group.

This article was first published in Digital Asset.

“Immutable” is a term that is frequently used when people talk about blockchain and the benefit of using this technology for record-keeping.

On 29 April 2016, the Australian Government Treasury released a proposal paper that, among other things, proposed reforms to introduce an ipso facto moratorium (Proposal). This reform was foreshadowed in as part of the Australian Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda.