The Business Law Reports
[2009] Bus LR 216
Court of Appeal
Masri v Consolidated Contractors International (UK) Ltd and others (No 3)
[2008] EWCA Civ 625
2008 April 22,
23;
June 6
June 6
Sir Anthony Clarke MR, Longmore, Lawrence Collins LJJ
Injunction— Jurisdiction to grant— Restraint of foreign proceedings— Claimant obtaining damages award against foreign defendants in English High Court— Defendants issuing foreign proceedings disputing liability to claimant— Claimant seeking anti-suit injunction— Whether claimant required to establish separate cause of action not to be sued— Whether power to grant post-judgment anti-suit injunction ancillary to substantive proceedings— Whether discretion to be exercised—
Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001, arts 2, 31