The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 2 WLR 181
NOTE
OWNERS OF CARGO LATELY LADEN ON BOARD THE SHIP TATRY
v.
OWNERS OF THE SHIP MACIEJ RATAJ
(Case C-406/92)
1994 May 11;
July 13;
Dec. 6
July 13;
Dec. 6
President G. C. Rodríguez Iglesias Presidents of Chambers R. Joliet, F. A. Schockweiler and P. J. G. Kapteyn Judges G. F. Mancini, C. N. Kakouris and J. L. Murray Advocate General G. Tesauro
Practice
— Stay of proceedings
— Jurisdiction under European Convention
— Lis alibi pendens
— Claim for declaration of non-liability in action in Holland
— Subsequent action in England for damages
— Incomplete identity of parties to two sets of proceedings
— Whether proceedings “involving the same cause of action and between the same parties”
— Whether court second seised to decline jurisdiction
— Relationship between Brussels Convention and specialised conventions
—
Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 (as amended), arts. 21, 22, 57
Ships' Names
— Maciej Rataj
— Tatry