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[2025] WLR(D) 86
Court of Appeal
UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC
[2025] EWCA Civ 99
2025 Feb 4; 11
Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Asplin, Phillips LJJ
Injunction— Anti-suit injunction— Discharge— Bond contracts containing choice of English law clauses and arbitration agreements with Paris seat— Claimant claiming anti-suit injunction in High Court to restrain defendant from continuing proceedings in Russia in breach of arbitration agreements— Court of Appeal granting final anti-suit injunction against defendant— Russian court granting defendant ruling requiring claimant to refrain from initiating or continuing proceedings against defendant in respect of bonds other than in Russian courts and to take all measures to cancel order of Court of Appeal or pay court-imposed penalty— Claimant applying to discharge final anti-suit injunction granted by Court of Appeal— Whether court having jurisdiction to revoke or vary final anti-suit injunction— Whether application to discharge final anti-suit injunction to be granted and if so whether injunction to be revoked or varied