The Weekly Law Reports
[2000] 2 WLR 497
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
AGNEW
and Others
Respondents
and
LÄNSFÖRSÄKRINGSBOLAGENS A.B.
Appellant
1999 Nov. 8,
9;
2000 Feb. 17
2000 Feb. 17
Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Woolf M.R., Lord Cooke of Thorndon, Lord Hope of Craighead and Lord Millett
Conflict of Laws
— Jurisdiction under European Convention
— Place of performance of contractual obligation
— Reinsurance contract
— Action by reinsurers seeking to avoid reinsurance contracts on grounds of misrepresentation and non-disclosure
— Application by insurers to set aside writ for want of jurisdiction
— Whether action concerning “matters relating to insurance”
— Whether concerning “matters relating to a contract”
—
Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27), Sch. 3C (as inserted by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 (c. 12), s. 1(3), Sch. 1), arts. 5(1), 7
Insurance
— Reinsurance
— Jurisdiction under European Convention
— Action by reinsurers to avoid reinsurance contracts on grounds of misrepresentation and non-disclosure
— Whether concerning “matters relating to insurance”
—
Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Sch. 3C, art. 7