United Kingdom Leading Case foreign seatarbitration agreementproper place

UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC

[2024] UKSC 30

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtSupreme Court of the United Kingdom

Year2024

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

An English court has jurisdiction to grant an anti-suit injunction to restrain proceedings brought in a foreign court in breach of an arbitration agreement specifying a seat in England, even where the seat is abroad, provided there is a sufficient connection to England.

Area of Law

arbitration, injunction, jurisdiction

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