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CPD Course:
Digital Property,
Probate and Digital Will
Presented by
Prof. Steven Gallagher,
Professor of Practice in Law,
Associate Dean
(Academic & Student Affairs),
The Faculty of Law,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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EVT000000468 |
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Intermediate |
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8 October 2025 (Wednesday) |
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English |
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| Time: |
14:30 - 17:45
(Reception starts at 14:00) |
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LSHK CPD Points being applied for |
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Admission: |
Standard Fee: HK$1,980.00Advanced Booking: HK$1,680.00
(on or before 24 September 2025)Please call 2116 3328 for details
and Group Discount |
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| Presenter's Profile: |
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Steven Gallagher was awarded a first class LL.B. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2006. Steven teaches equity and trusts, property law, and digital technology and law. Steven also teaches a course on art, antiquities, cultural heritage and the law. Steven has presented continuing professional development courses for solicitors in Hong Kong on many topics associated with property. Steven’s research interests include equity and the law of trusts, Chinese custom and law, art and cultural heritage law, legal history, and law and technology. He is not a technologist. In 2023 Steven published the first treatise dealing formally and systematically with all the major aspects of and entitled, Digital Technology and Law.
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Lawyers are already engaging with digital property. For those assisting in estate planning and/or dealing with estates involving digital property, there have already been high-profile issues. These can involve issues in identifying, recovering and assigning digital property.
This three-hour seminar will consider those issues. The first part of the seminar will consider issues that arise in estate planning involving digital property. This includes identifying digital property and considering the characteristics of various forms of digital property, including virtual property and crypto-property (including cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs)). This part will also consider the problems with transferring ownership or control of digital property and recovering digital property. The second part of the seminar will consider the use of artificial intelligence to assist in drafting wills and the possible issues that may arise. The concluding part of the seminar will consider if we may use digital wills in Hong Kong, if they would be valid under existing Hong Kong law and if the law should be changed ensure digital wills will be valid. The seminar will conclude by considering some notable cases that have been decided on these issues.
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- What is electronic digital technology?
- What are digital assets and digital property?
- Is digital property really property?
- General issues with digital assets and property;
- Who owns your digital music collection?
- Who owns your social media?
- What is blockchain?
- What are cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens?
- Why probate practitioners should care about digital assets;
- Transferrable and non-transferrable digital assets;
- Can ChatGPT assist in drafting a will?
- What issues may arise when using artificial intelligence to draft wills?
- What are digital wills and are they valid and enforceable?
- The future including digital wills;
- Challenges in estate planning.
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Telephone: +852 3118 2371 | Facsimile: +852 3118 2372 Postal Address: P.O. Box 9993, General Post Office, Hong Kong |
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