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English High Court sets aside permission to enforce fabricated arbitral award
In a recent decision in Contax Partners Inc BVI v Kuwait Finance House (KFH-Kuwait) & Ors [2024] EWHC 436 (Comm), the English Commercial Court (the …
ENGLISH HIGH COURT GRANTS ANTI-SUIT AND ANTI-ANTI-SUIT INJUNCTIONS TO RESTRAIN RUSSIAN PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT BY SANCTIONED ENTITIES
LAW SOCIETY PUBLISHES REPORT ON GLOBAL POSITION OF ENGLISH AND WELSH LAW
The Law Society of England and Wales has recently launched a new initiative to highlight the attractions of English law and of England and Wales as a …
ENGLISH HIGH COURT DISMISSES RUSSIA'S JURISDICTIONAL CHALLENGE ON BASIS OF STATE IMMUNITY IN YUKOS CASE
On 1 November 2023, in Hulley v Russian Federation [2023] EWHC 2704 (Comm), Mrs Justice Cockerill in the English High Court (the Court) dismissed a …
ENGLISH COURT REJECTS INTERIM INJUNCTION APPLICATION FOR LACK OF URGENCY
In JOL and JWL v JPM [2023] EWHC 2486 (Comm), the English High Court has dismissed an application for interim injunctions, finding the requirement of …
UPDATE: THE WINNER LOSES IT ALL? ENGLISH COURT UPHOLDS NIGERIA'S CHALLENGE TO $11bn AWARDS IN 140 PAGE MEGA-JUDGMENT
Observing that "the facts and circumstances of this case... are remarkable" and that he did not do so "without reluctance" Knowles J upholds challenge to …
UK Supreme Court interprets the "stay" provisions of s9 of the Arbitration Act 1996: rules Mozambique's claims fall outside scope of arbitration agreements and rejects s9 application for stay
Introduction In Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL and others [2023] UKSC 32, the Supreme Court has unanimously found the Republic of …
ENGLISH COURT RETAINS POWER TO AWARD COSTS AFTER ARBITRATION CHALLENGE DISMISSED
English Commercial Court refuses to issue anti-suit injunction for Paris arbitration in the case of SQD v QYP
In SQD v QYP [2023] EWHC 2145 (Comm), the English Commercial Court refused to issue an anti-suit injunction (ASI) and anti-enforcement injunction to stop …
No contract, no arbitration agreement? The separability principle explained
In DHL Project & Chartering Ltd v Gemini Ocean Shipping Co. Ltd [2022] EWCA 1555, the Court of Appeal considered whether an arbitration agreement was …
English High Court confirms that a non-participating party may contest jurisdiction even though an arbitrator has been appointed
In National Investment Bank Ltd v Eland International (Thailand) Co. Ltd and another [2022] EWHC 1168 (Comm), the English High Court considered the …
THE FRENCH SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS SET ASIDE OF AWARD DUE TO EVIDENCE OF MONEY LAUNDERING
In Belokon v. Kyrgyzstan (Cass. Civ. 1ère, 23 March 2022, No. 17-17.981), the French Supreme Court upheld the 2017 decision of the Paris Court of Appeal …
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