From: Samuel Beswick <sbeswick@sjd.law.harvard.edu>

Sent: Friday 10 January 2025 21:28

To: Robert Stevens

Cc: obligations@uwo.ca

Subject: Re: Bitcoin and Restitution

It also has a third thing, which I am interested in: the claimant's "desperate argument" to extend time for filing suit in reliance on section 32 of the Limitation Act 1980. There's been a flurry of case law on limitation discoverability over the past four years which I canvas in the next LMCLQ issue. The court here properly dismissed that argument.

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 06:09, Robert Stevens <robert.stevens@law.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

An amusing case, combining two of the things I am interested in.

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2025/22.html

The claimant, by mistake, in 2013 deposits a hard drive containing the key to his Bitcoin wallet in a landfill site in Newport. Claims that the Bitcoin now worth in excess of £600m (more than the value of the landfill site. Or, indeed, Newport.)

Seeks a declaration that either the council digs up the site to find it, or allows his team of experts to do so.

Claim is struck out. Lots of 'proprietary restitutionary' stuff.

Rob