WHO IS A PARTY AFFECTED BY A SUMMARY JUDGMENT? THE CPR; CRYPTOCURRENCY; DELAY IN APPLYING AND THE MERITS OF THE CASE CONSIDERED IN A COURT OF APPEAL JUDGMENT TODAY

We are likely to see much litigation, and quite a few procedural wrangles, arising from Bitcoin and similar "currencies".  Here we have an interesting, and important, question under CPR 40.9.  Firstly in relation to whether a party was "directly affected" by an order to the extent that it had the ri...