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01 June 2018
Issue: 7795 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Conflict of laws

Atlas Power Ltd and others v National Transmission and Despatch Company Ltd [2018] EWHC 1052 (Comm), [2018] All ER (D) 132 (May)

Notwithstanding that the relevant agreements to arbitrate were governed by the law of Pakistan, where the parties had chosen London as the seat of the arbitration concerning a dispute over sums allegedly owed, and where the arbitrator had confirmed that, the Commercial Court held that the claimant Pakistan-registered companies were entitled to a final anti-suit injunction to restrain the defendant national grid company, owned by the Government of Pakistan, from challenging a partial final award made in the London arbitration by way of proceedings in Pakistan or in any jurisdiction other than England and Wales. The court rejected the contention that the courts in Pakistan had concurrent supervisory jurisdiction.

Costs

Lord Ltd v HSBC Bank plc [2018] EWHC 860 (Comm) [2018], All ER (D) 07 (May)

The defendant HSBC Bank’s application for security for costs against the claimant company succeeded, in a dispute in which the claimant alleged that

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