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United Kingdom anti suit injunctionseatconflict of laws

SQD v QYP

[2023] EWHC 2145 (Comm)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of Justice (Commercial Court)
Year2023
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

The English court will not ordinarily grant an anti-suit injunction to restrain foreign proceedings brought in breach of an arbitration agreement where the seat of arbitration is in a jurisdiction (here Paris) whose courts do not themselves grant such relief, because the anti-suit remedy is tied to the seat rather than to the law governing the arbitration agreement.

Area of Law

commercial

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