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[2024] WLR(D) 238
King’s Bench Division
Magomedov and others v PJSC Transneft and others
[2024] EWHC 1176 (Comm)
2024 May 8, 9; 21
Bright J
Injunction— Jurisdiction to grant— Restraint of foreign proceedings— Claimants bringing action against Russian defendants in English High Court— Defendant bringing anti-suit proceedings in Russian court and subsequently issuing jurisdictional challenge in High Court— Claimants seeking anti-anti-suit injunction until determination of jurisdictional challenge— Whether jurisdiction to grant anti-suit relief prior to determination that English court more appropriate forum