Craig Wright has not filed an attraction in opposition to his UK courtroom verdict regardless of two on-line accounts beneath his identify claiming he had. 

Wright had 21 days to ask the UK appellate courts for permission to attraction after injunctions have been imposed on him on July 16. This made the deadline August 5, midnight. 

The UK’s Judicial Workplace has since confirmed to Protos that Wright hasn’t submitted an attraction. Certainly, the UK’s Justice case tracker for civil appeals additionally exhibits no signal of an attraction from Wright. 

The workplace famous that an attraction might nonetheless be filed if Wright submits an utility for an extension of time.

Two accounts on X and Slack claiming to be Wright mentioned that he had certainly deliberate to file an attraction on August 5 and that he’d submitted the related submitting.  

The X account in query shared the physique of textual content Wright is legally obligated to publish following injunctions from the courtroom, suggesting it could certainly be his. Justice Choose Mellor additionally dominated these notices needs to be shared on his Slack channels the place the attraction declare was made.

This may increasingly recommend that the accounts are run by Wright or on his behalf, that means it’s seemingly he’s lied about any attraction filings.  

Third attraction failure from Craig Wright

Wright has additionally deserted an attraction in Norway in opposition to the bitcoin influencer Hodlonaut following the 2024 UK ruling. Hodlonaut sued Wright in Norway earlier than Wright might sue him for libel within the UK first.

One other attraction Wright made in 2022 in response to the Peter McCormack defamation verdict was additionally rejected. On this occasion, Wright was awarded £1 in damages regardless of successful his lawsuit, because the decide deemed he had introduced a “deliberately false case.”