The Weekly Law Reports
[1999] 2 WLR 163
[COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES]
DROUOT ASSURANCES S.A. v. CONSOLIDATED METALLURGICAL INDUSTRIES (C.M.I. INDUSTRIAL SITES) and Others
(Case C-351/96)
1997 Nov. 13;
1998 Jan. 15;
May 19
1998 Jan. 15;
May 19
President of Chamber C. Gulmann Judges M. Wathelet, J. C. Moitinho de Almeida, D. A. O. Edward and L. Sevón Advocate General N. Fennelly
Practice
— Stay of proceedings
— Jurisdiction under European Convention
— Actions concerning contribution to general average
— Insurer of vessel's hull party to one action
— Vessel's owner party to other action
— Whether actions “between the same parties”
— Whether court second seised to decline jurisdiction
—
Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 (as amended), art. 21
Ships' Names
— Sequana