Arbitration Notes

English court continues anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunctions in support of arbitration agreement despite Russian judgment obtained in breach

Overlapping dispute resolution clauses: the Court of Appeal rejects anti-suit injunction application to prevent Moscow proceedings in connection with English law governed Facility Agreement

Cross post: Court of Appeal grants UniCredit's request to discharge final anti-suit injunction in its favour in order to avoid Russian court-imposed penalty

Patricia Nacimiento to speak at GAR Live: Vienna 2024

Arbitration Act reform awaits new Parliament's agenda

English Commercial Court rules in favour of publishing a judgment on an arbitration claim

In Mordchai Ganz v Petronz FZE & Abraham Goren [2024] EWHC 1011 (Comm), the English Commercial Court (the Court) decided to publish a non-anonymised …

English High Court rejects Section 68 challenge to arbitral award on the grounds of "serious irregularity"

In the case of Republic of Kosovo v ContourGlobal Kosovo LLC [2024] EWHC 877 (Comm), the English High Court (the High Court) has rejected a challenge by …

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 …