Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL

In Masri v Consolidated Contractors Int'l Co SAL [2011] EWHC 1780 (Comm) (Burton J, 13 July 2011) the court STAYED Masri's English conspiracy and procuring-breach-of-contract claims (arising from non-payment of the judgment debt) on jurisdiction grounds, as related to Greek proceedings and giving rise to a risk of irreconcilable judgments, the defendants having undertaken to submit to the Greek court. The court did NOT 'entertain' those claims. The separate proposition that compliance with a foreign court's order is no defence to contempt of an English order derives from the distinct contempt judgment [2011] EWHC 1024 (Comm) (Christopher Clarke J), not this case.