Jurisdiction: Global reach

Abigail Bennett analyses the court’s approach to a case involving assets in multiple jurisdictions and a defendant with no apparent place of domicile ‘The court was not persuaded that the relationship between the parties was of a nature that generated rights comparable to marriage for the purposes of the Judgments Regulation.’ The decision in Gray …
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Jurisdiction: Should I stay or should I go?

Stephen Atherton QC and Malcolm Jarvis review a decision on a novel point under the Lugano Convention ‘It will only be in exceptional circumstances that case management considerations will be permitted to prevail over the English court’s lack of jurisdiction in respect of a co-defendant once the claim against the anchor defendant has been dismissed.’ …
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