The Norwich Pharmacal Order application was used again in the High Court in May 2021. The case involved bitcoin.
Williams v Coinbase Europe Limited (High Court Record No. 2021/348P) involved an American man who bought a large amount of cryptocurrency in February 2021. He transferred it to his blockchain account, but it disappeared soon after.
Williams engaged the services of a cryptographic tracing firm who traced his bitcoin to the Irish based defendant in this case. Who held this account, however, was not clear.
The defendant could not disclose the identity of the account holder due to GDPR and contractual obligations without a court order. For this reason, proceedings were instituted for the plaintiff to obtain a Norwich Pharmacal Order which would force the defendant to disclose the identity.
The application to the High Court was successful. The order was made that the defendant had 5 days to hand over all information in its possession which would reveal or help to reveal the identity of the individual who controlled the account.
This information included ip addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, names, log in and log out information.
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