YouTube Kanal «Lex Futura – Schweizer Wirtschaftsrecht» Haftung des Geschäftsführers und des Verwaltungsrats in der Schweiz

The London High Court has ordered crypto exchanges based outside the UK to disclose customer information to a rival operator to help track stolen funds

In the future, persons in Switzerland who are involved in foreign civil proceedings are to be able to be questioned or heard by telephone or video conference without official authorization from the Federal Office of Justice. At its meeting on November 23, 2022, the Federal Council sent a corresponding bill for consultation.

Decentralized justice is a new approach to dispute resolution that combines blockchain, crowdsourcing and game theory in order to produce resolution systems which are radically more efficient than existing methods.

Im neuen Video auf unserem YouTube Kanal erläutert Anina Groh, was du bei den Klauseln zum Gerichtsstand und anwendbaren Recht in deiner nächsten Vertragsverhandlung beachten musst.

In a recent judgment (of D’Aloia v. Binance Holdings & Others, [2022] EWHC 1723 (Ch)), the High Court of England and Wales granted an order for service of court proceedings via transfer of a token on the blockchain. Further, and more significantly, the court held that there is an arguable case of constructive trustee liability against the involved crypto exchanges.

Im neuen Video auf unserem YouTube Kanal erläutert Anina Groh, auf was Du bei Vertragsunterzeichnungen achten solltest. Du lernst, wie Verträge sinnvoll und korrekt mit der Nutzung von digitalen Möglichkeiten unterzeichnet werden.

As soon as two contractual partners are not domiciled in the same place and, in particular, not in the same country, the clauses on jurisdiction and applicable law almost inevitably lead to discussions during contract negotiations. There is no easy compromise; no one wants to have long discussions about such "technicalities". In this blog post, you will learn how you can position yourself as a company in negotiations on such clauses in order to efficiently find a good solution with your contractual partners.

Costs budgeting is a concept originating from English civil procedure. It enables the parties to gain more transparency and upfront control of their costs in a dispute. The present blog post assesses whether this concept might have also a role to play in arbitration.