Another example of dowers, Iranian law, Rome I and pre-Rome I residual Dutch law
Appeal Amsterdam (after Supreme Court annulment of earlier decisions)
ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2026:537 deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id...
Compare gavclaw.com/2025/06/16/c...
Anchor jurisdiction A8(1) BIa
Group DF Oil & Gas v West Group Oil
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Dutch trustee defendants cannot be used as anchors because their liability is dead duck viz applicable Ukrainian law
Court imo should have stayed pending Prismilian gavclaw.com/2025/04/09/a...
Yukos saga
Enforcement of arbitration awards by panel seated in The Netherlands
Ordre public arguments under NY Convention largely fail
Note closing paras by Justice Bright
Hulley Enterprises ea v [Russia] [2026] EWHC 456 (Comm)
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Another good example of poorly drafted ADR clause, which ends up having to be interpreted in light of commonsense commercial practice
Ropa v Kharis Solutions Ltd [2026] EWHC 259 (Comm) bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Brexit, assimilated /retained EU law claxon
Application of "creditors' voluntary winding up with confirmation by the court" in Annex of the EIR 2015
Statutory construction
Application to Guernsey-incorporated company
Esken Ltd, Re [2026] EWHC 495 (Ch)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Application fails dismiss injunction viz duty of fair presentation; failure to supplement evidence on foreign law
Trial will include whether A4 Rome II will lead to SP or DE law (location of the servers)
Infinni Innovations v OFMS [2026] EWHC 470 (Comm)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Enforcement at common law of two Russian judgments relating to post-nuptial agreement, with extensive review of the classic decision tree.
Timokhin v Timokhina [2026] EWHC 439 (KB) bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
PTA refused viz appointment of representative claimants
Stand-alone antitrust damages claim, role of funding arrangements
CoA authority seeks to ensure funding does not deprive class rep of control of proceedings
Stephan v Amazon [2026] EWCA Civ 183 www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Successful s67 Arbitration Act substantive jurisidiction challenge against award under US-Korea FTA
Republic of Korea v Elliott Associates LP [2026] EWHC 368 (Comm)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
For Brexit, Withdrawal Agreement aficionados
Relevant date for the assessment of absolute ground objections for UK trade mark applications derived from earlier EU applications made before the UK exited the EU.
Parabolica v Tesla [2026] EWHC 386 (Ch)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Classic question whether arbitration clause with IN as forum arbitri, IN law as lex arbitri, contained in MOU, applies to claim at issue
Held: clause does not so apply to claim, A4 BIa domicile jurisdiction is engaged
Mac's Medical v Concept Medical
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Application of A24(2) Brussels Ia
Exclusive jurisdictional rule for corporate matters
Applied to application for removal of shareholder
EMDC Medical BV et al v Medenvoy Global BV et al
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Interesting Court of Appeal judgment on absolute immunity from defamation viz statements made in course of litigation; A10 ECHR; v integrity of judicial proceedings
Held bar for injunctive orders very high
Titan Wealth Holding v Okunola [2026] EWCA Civ 138
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ADR claxon
Law and religion
Enforcement of Beth Din award
Whether parties' agreement that the Beth Din could amend their award "at any time", rules out finality hence enforceability
Gluck v Endzweig & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 145
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Successful appeal
Sanctioned Rus oligarch, banned from entering UK, cannot validly be served at his LDN house as being 'present' there
Dicey Rule 32
Option remains to apply for service out of the jurisdiction
Fridman v Agrofirma Oniks [2026] EWCA Civ 139
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Application re expertise on ARG law
Enforcement of NY judgment ordering ARG pay 50 billion (!) USD to shareholders of state oil company
ARG argue ordre public, sovereign immunity in core proceedings
Peterson Energia v Argentina [2026] EWHC 344 (Comm)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
A Dicey-heavy judgment on whether Mr Jones retained his domicile of origin or had acquired a domicile of choice in Austria. Relevant to insolvency purposes post Brexit.
Nilsson & Anor v Jones [2026] EWHC 319 (Ch)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Jurisdictional challenge meanwhile has failed
Different sets of foreign applicable law and how easy it would be for the English courts to apply them, is considered a factor in the forum non argument
Amazon v Interdigital[2025] EWHC 3334 (Pat)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Brexit jurisdictional clashes
Temperature heating up and threatening (per Meade J) judicial comity in Europe
Application ex parte for interim anti-anti-suit successful, viz proceedings in UPC and EU
Paramount v Nokia [2025] EWHC 3083 (Pat)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
(Late flag) Brexit jurisdictional clash
Meade J continues anti-anti-suit injunction for ltd period, in light of substantial challenge to jurisdiction of E&W
Defendant obtained anti-suit relief in DE court & UPC
Amazon v InterDigital [2025] EWHC 2600 (Pat)
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Patent DNI (denial of infringement)
'Evidence and procedure' carve-out Rome I
Acer v Nokia [2025] EWHC 3331 (Pat)
Court of Appeal's obiter Rome II considerations in Activavis v Eli Lilly (see wp.me/p289fR-2Z8) equally count for Rome I:
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Blogged.
Richard de la Tour AG in TERVE Production v Intesa Sanpaolo Holding International. More on forum societatis and forum contractus (sadly not: on forum delicti) in take-over squeeze out.
wp.me/p289fR-4O5
Whether service out required in case of Polish lorry impounded by Customs
Interesting discussion whthr CJEU Owusu held not just that forum non is bad law under Brussels but also service out requirement (held: it had not)
[HMG] v Sedico [2026] EWHC 222 (KB)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Enforcement at common law of 5 Chinese judgments
Dicey Rule 46
Whether Chinese courts had jurisdiction under EN PrivIntLaw rules
(Rule 58 does not apply; China has signed but not ratified 2005 Hague Choice of Court Convention)
Li ea v Yuan ea [2026] EWHC 242 (Comm) www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Interesting application of the (limited) assimilation of the EU Insolvency Regulation EIR in the UK
Aerovias del Continente Americano SA Avianca & Ors v Versilia Solutions Ltd [2026] EWHC 282 (Ch)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Determination of 'court first seized' under Article 30 Brussels Ia's 'related cases' provision
Decided necessarily under residual civil procedure rules
Held: Dutch court was seised first, Article 30 cannot be enaged
Uab Baltic Transline, BTL Group UAB v X deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id...
Case-management decision in claims for unlawful means conspiracy
Context: Pegasus spy software
Incl issues of expert sharing, hot-tubbing re issues of Lux, Alaskan, Oregon law
(Plenty of Rome I, II issues at trial)
Treo Noal v Kowski [2026] EWHC 265 (Comm)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Anti-enforcement order (viz attempted enforcement in India and Malaysia) issued, supporting tribunal order
Defendants earlier ignored anti-suit, anti-arbitration order of E&W courts
Tecnimont SpA v LLC Eurochem North-West-2 (Russia) [2026] EWHC 255 (Comm)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Interesting (succinct; more at trial one imagines) reflection on tracing for Bitcoin in context of freezing injunction
Wrongful removal of cryptocurrencies held by Claimants
Whether UTXO or LIFO method
Smithers ea v Persons Unknown [2026] EWHC 207 (Comm)
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Permission for service out
Good arguable case threshold incl discussion on applicable law (assimilated) Rome I
Whether express choice of law result of framework agreement; implied choice of law; cascade of A4
Westbase v Vuzix [2026] EWHC 138 (Ch) www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
