What is blockchain and why should legal practitioners care?
In October 2019, the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola announced that 45 000 trust files had gone missing from the Pretoria Master’s Office (Linda Ensor ‘Pretoria Master’s Office missing 45,000 trust files’ (www.businesslive.co.za, accessed 8-12-2022)). Apparently, these files were ‘destroyed during a storm that caused the roof of the storage facility to be blown off’ (Ensor (op cit)).