Sir Geoffrey Vos.

Sir Geoffrey Vos is Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales. He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1977 and appeared in a number of seminal cases including Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society [1997] UKHL 28. He was appointed as a Justice of the High Court assigned to the Chancery Division in October 2009.

Between 2005 and 2009 Sir Geoffrey was a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, and a Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands between 2008 and 2009. He sat as a Deputy High Court Judge from 1999 until 2009, was the Chairman of the Chancery Bar Association from 1999 to 2001 and of the Bar Council in 2007.

Sir Geoffrey was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013 and appointed as Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales in 2016. He was President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary from June 2014 to June 2016. Currently, Sir Geoffrey is Chair of the UK LawTech Delivery Panel's UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, which is running a public consultation on the legal status of smart contracts and cryptoassets.

*This is a non-peer reviewed article based on a lecture entitled 'Cryptoassets as property: how can English law boost the confidence of would-be parties to smart legal contracts?', delivered on 2 May 2019 at the University of Liverpool in a joint event with the Northern Chancery Bar Association. I would like to acknowledge with gratitude the great assistance in the preparation of the lecture and article provided by Dr JG Allen, my former judicial assistant, and Ms Anca-Gabriela Bunda, my current judicial assistant.