United Kingdom Leading Case vexatious oppressiverestraining foreign proceedingsnatural forum

Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale v Lee Kui Jak

[1987] UKPC 12; [1987] AC 871

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtJudicial Committee of the Privy Council (on appeal from Brunei)

Year1987

StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

An anti-suit injunction restraining foreign proceedings requires that England (or the alternative forum) is the natural forum AND that pursuit of the foreign proceedings would be vexatious or oppressive, without unjustly depriving the claimant of a legitimate advantage.

Area of Law

Civil Procedure, Conflicts & Arbitration

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