United Kingdom Leading Case uncategorized

The Sennar (No 2)

DSV Silo- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH v Owners of the Sennar (The Sennar) (No 2) [1985] 1 WLR 490 (HL)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtHouse of Lords

Year1985

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A foreign judgment on the merits (including a decision dismissing an action on a jurisdiction/governing-law ground that determined substantive rights) creates issue estoppel barring re-litigation of the same issue in England.

Area of Law

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