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Gerasimenko v VTB Capital Plc

[2025] EWHC 1333 (Comm)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of England and Wales (Commercial Court, King's Bench Division)
Year2025
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Reverse summary judgment is appropriate, even in a complex cross-border claim governed by foreign law, where the claim has no real prospect of success on the assumption that the claimants' pleaded propositions of foreign law are correct.

Area of Law

commercial

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