Drouot Assurances SA v Consolidated Metallurgical Industries (CMI Industrial Sites)

Subject Matter

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

[1999] QB 497; [1999] 2 WLR 163