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11 May 2018
Issue: 7792 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Arbitration

Dreymoor Fertilisers Overseas PTE Ltd v Eurochem Trading GMBH [2018] EWHC 909 (Comm), [2018] All ER (D) 17 (May)

The claimant company’s challenge to the jurisdiction of an arbitrator in a dispute concerning alleged corrupt arrangements in the sale of fertiliser products failed. The Commercial Court held that the arbitrator had had jurisdiction in both of the arbitrations under consideration, and his partial final award would be allowed to stand.

Conflict of laws

Dell Emerging Markets (EMEA) Ltd and others v Systems Equipment Telecommunications Services S.A.L. [2018] EWHC 702 (Comm), [2018] All ER (D) 14 (May)

The Commercial Court granted an application by the claimant companies, which included Dell Computer SA, for an anti-suit injunction to restrain the defendant distributor company (SETS) from continuing Lebanese proceedings for the alleged breach of an international distribution agreement (the agreement). The court ruled that the test for an anti-suit injunction had been met in relation to Dell Computer SA and that the fact that the agreement, which contained an English exclusive jurisdiction clause, would be regarded

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NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
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Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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