General Editor's Preface |
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Foreword |
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Preface |
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liii | |
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Table of International Cases |
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Table of UK Statutory Instruments |
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Table of the Brussels-Lugano Regime |
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Table of European Legislation |
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Table of International Treaties and Conventions |
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Abbreviations and Glossary |
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1 | (40) |
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Terminology and characterization |
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5 | (3) |
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The landscape of the remedy |
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8 | (3) |
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Anti-suit injunctions and comity |
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11 | (25) |
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11 | (3) |
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The English courts' commitment to the anti-suit injunction |
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14 | (4) |
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18 | (3) |
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The absolute challenge based on sovereignty and jurisdiction |
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21 | (6) |
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Comity and the right to decide |
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27 | (9) |
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36 | (11) |
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The right of access to a court |
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36 | (1) |
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Does the right of access to a court apply extraterritorially? |
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37 | (4) |
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The right of access to a court and contractual anti-suit injunctions |
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41 | (1) |
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The right of access to a court and alternative forum cases |
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42 | (4) |
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Article 6 and single forum cases |
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46 | (1) |
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Conflict with public international law |
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The History of an Unusual Remedy |
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41 | (20) |
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1 | (1) |
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2 | (3) |
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The fusion of Law and Equity |
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5 | (5) |
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Forum non conveniens and the Castanho heresy |
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10 | (3) |
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13 | (1) |
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Aerospatiale and The Angelic Grace |
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14 | (4) |
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18 | (3) |
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21 | (40) |
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61 | (20) |
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1 | (1) |
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The power to grant injunctions |
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2 | (6) |
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A legal or equitable right? |
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8 | (5) |
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The form and nature of final anti-suit injunctions |
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13 | (6) |
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A substantive cause of action? |
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13 | (1) |
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Proceedings brought by claim form |
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14 | (1) |
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Converting an interim hearing into a trial |
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15 | (1) |
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Discharge or variation of final injunctions |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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Prohibitory and mandatory injunctions |
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18 | (1) |
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Against whom may an anti-suit injunction be granted? |
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19 | (62) |
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Injunctions to Restrain Proceedings Abroad: General Principles |
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81 | (40) |
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1 | (3) |
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4 | (6) |
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A discretionary remedy governed by principle |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (3) |
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14 | (4) |
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A legal or equitable right |
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18 | (10) |
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Substantive contractual rights |
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20 | (1) |
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Specific equitable rights |
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21 | (2) |
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Rights and wrongs in tort |
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23 | (3) |
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Injunctions to enforce the Brussels-Lugano regime? |
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26 | (2) |
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Vexatious or oppressive conduct |
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28 | (4) |
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Interference with the process of the English court |
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32 | (4) |
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36 | (1) |
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Legitimate and illegitimate advantages |
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37 | (3) |
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40 | (12) |
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Non-intervention and caution |
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41 | (1) |
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Sufficient interest or connection |
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42 | (4) |
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Amenable to the jurisdiction |
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46 | (2) |
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Comity and discretion in general |
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48 | (1) |
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Bypassing or overriding comity |
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49 | (3) |
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52 | (2) |
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Other discretionary considerations |
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54 | (67) |
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Non-Contractual Anti-Suit Injunctions |
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121 | (34) |
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1 | (1) |
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2 | (13) |
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General principles in alternative forum cases |
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3 | (2) |
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Subjectively vexatious proceedings |
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5 | (1) |
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Objectively vexatious or oppressive proceedings |
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6 | (6) |
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12 | (3) |
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Injunctions to prevent relitigation |
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15 | (3) |
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18 | (13) |
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Types of single forum injunction |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (2) |
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Disputes and relationships centred in England and subject to English law |
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25 | (3) |
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Protection of the jurisdiction of the English court |
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28 | (3) |
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Insolvency and justice between creditors |
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31 | (5) |
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Stay applications in the foreign court |
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36 | (5) |
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Ancillary and collateral proceedings |
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41 | (6) |
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Anti-anti-suit injunctions |
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47 | (6) |
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Anti-enforcement injunctions |
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53 | (102) |
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Injunctions in Relation to Proceedings in England and Wales |
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155 | (14) |
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1 | (3) |
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Powers to grant injunctions in relation to English proceedings |
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4 | (2) |
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Principles governing injunctions in England |
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6 | (8) |
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Injunctions to restrain the use of confidential information |
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14 | (1) |
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Injunctions to restrain winding up petitions |
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15 | (1) |
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Injunctions to protect winding up proceedings |
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16 | (3) |
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Orders to restrain vexatious litigants |
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19 | (150) |
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Anti-Suit Injunctions and Exclusive Forum Clauses |
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169 | (34) |
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1 | (3) |
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The effect of the Brussels-Lugano regime |
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4 | (2) |
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6 | (2) |
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The Angelic Grace principles |
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8 | (9) |
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The scope and limits of exclusive forum clauses |
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17 | (12) |
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18 | (2) |
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Exclusive and non-exclusive clauses |
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20 | (2) |
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22 | (1) |
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Evasion of exclusive forum clauses |
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23 | (1) |
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Clauses prohibiting any litigation at all |
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24 | (1) |
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Challenging the exclusive forum clause |
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25 | (4) |
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Injunctions in support of a foreign forum |
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29 | (5) |
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Injunctions to enforce arbitration clauses |
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34 | (9) |
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Does an arbitration clause preclude a claim for an injunction? |
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36 | (3) |
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Can an anti-suit injunction be sought from the arbitrators? |
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39 | (3) |
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Injunctions to protect the court's supervisory jurisdiction |
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42 | (1) |
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Foreign proceedings to obtain security |
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43 | (160) |
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Strong Reasons and Discretion |
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203 | (20) |
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1 | (3) |
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4 | (1) |
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The nature of the litigation |
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5 | (5) |
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8 | (1) |
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Material injustice to the injunction defendant |
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9 | (1) |
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The conduct of the injunction claimant |
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10 | (4) |
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11 | (1) |
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Voluntary submission and inconsistent behaviour |
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12 | (2) |
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14 | (209) |
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Offence to the foreign court |
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15 | (3) |
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The conflict of conflicts |
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18 | (7) |
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Stay applications in the foreign court |
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25 | (3) |
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The enforceability of the injunction |
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28 | (195) |
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Non-Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses |
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223 | (8) |
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1 | (3) |
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4 | (3) |
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Indirect relevance where there is no implied term |
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7 | (224) |
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Quasi-Contractual Anti-Suit Injunctions |
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231 | (16) |
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1 | (5) |
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3 | (1) |
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Inconsistent contractual claims |
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4 | (2) |
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Derived rights and forum clauses |
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6 | (2) |
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An obligation not to sue elsewhere? |
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8 | (3) |
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Third party rights under foreign law |
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11 | (3) |
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The grant of anti-suit injunctions in `third party' quasi-contractual cases |
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14 | (8) |
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Inconsistent contractual claims |
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22 | (225) |
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Injunctions to restrain Arbitration Proceedings |
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247 | (18) |
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Injunctions to restrain arbitrations in England |
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1 | (17) |
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1 | (1) |
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The principles of Common Law and Equity |
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2 | (5) |
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The Arbitration Act 1996 and the Common Law |
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7 | (5) |
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Injunctions under section 72 |
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12 | (6) |
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Injunctions to restrain arbitrations outside the jurisdiction |
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18 | (5) |
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Injunctions against arbitrators |
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23 | (242) |
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Anti-Suit Injunctions and European Jurisdictional Law |
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265 | (32) |
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1 | (7) |
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Both sets of proceedings within the Brussels-Lugano regime and zone |
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8 | (2) |
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Competing proceedings outside the Brussels-Lugano zone |
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10 | (3) |
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Injunctions and proceedings in the United Kingdom |
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13 | (2) |
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Injunctions to enforce an arbitration clause |
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15 | (11) |
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Anti-suit injunctions granted by arbitrators |
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26 | (2) |
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Underlying proceedings outside the material scope of the regime |
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28 | (6) |
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`Target' proceedings outside the scope of the Regulation |
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34 | (2) |
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Injunctions in general terms |
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36 | (1) |
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Injunctions granted before accession |
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37 | (1) |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (257) |
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Interim Anti-Suit Injunctions |
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297 | (24) |
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1 | (3) |
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4 | (12) |
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The primary power: section 37(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 |
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4 | (4) |
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Powers to grant injunctions in support of arbitrations |
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8 | (3) |
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Arbitrators' lack of power to grant interim injunctions |
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11 | (1) |
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Section 25(1) of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgment Act 1982 |
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12 | (2) |
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Powers under the Insolvency Act 1986 |
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14 | (1) |
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Powers of the appellate courts |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (11) |
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Interim anti-suit injunctions in the context of substantive proceedings |
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16 | (4) |
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Procedure for injunctions in support of arbitration |
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20 | (2) |
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Free-standing interim injunctions |
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22 | (3) |
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25 | (1) |
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The undertaking in damages |
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26 | (1) |
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The principles to be applied to the grant of interim anti-suit injunctions |
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27 | (10) |
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The general position: American Cyanamid does not apply |
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27 | (3) |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (2) |
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33 | (1) |
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Where the interim anti-suit injunction will not be determinative |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (2) |
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Mandatory interim injunctions |
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39 | (282) |
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321 | (22) |
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Damages for breach of contract |
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1 | (12) |
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1 | (2) |
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Legal costs in respect of proceedings in England |
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3 | (2) |
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Legal costs in respect of proceedings abroad |
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5 | (5) |
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10 | (2) |
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Quasi-contractual situations |
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12 | (1) |
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Damages outside the contractual case |
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13 | (9) |
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14 | (4) |
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Inducing a breach of contract and the economic torts |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (2) |
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Damages in lieu of an injunction: section 50 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 |
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21 | (1) |
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The principle of mutual trust under the Brussels-Lugano regime |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (320) |
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343 | (18) |
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1 | (2) |
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3 | (14) |
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The contractual situation |
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3 | (3) |
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Section 32 of the Arbitration Act 1996 |
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6 | (2) |
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Jurisdiction to hear claims for contractual declarations |
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8 | (3) |
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Declarations by arbitrators |
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11 | (3) |
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Non-contractual declarations |
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14 | (2) |
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Pre-emptive declarations as to recognition and enforcement |
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16 | (1) |
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Applications for the appointment of an arbitrator |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (5) |
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24 | (337) |
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The Framework of Jurisdictional Law |
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361 | (8) |
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1 | (2) |
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The framework of English jurisdictional law |
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3 | (7) |
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The material scope of the Brussels-Lugano regime |
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10 | (359) |
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Jurisdiction under the Brussels-Lugano Regime |
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369 | (28) |
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1 | (2) |
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Jurisdiction over final anti-suit injunctions under the Brussels-Lugano regime |
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3 | (34) |
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Jurisdiction based on domicile: Article 2 |
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4 | (1) |
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Domicile outside the Brussels-Lugano zone: Article 4 |
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5 | (1) |
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Domicile elsewhere in the Brussels-Lugano zone |
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6 | (1) |
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Article 5(1) in general: place of performance of a contract |
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7 | (6) |
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Article 5(1): goods and services |
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13 | (1) |
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Tort (and equitable wrongs): Article 5(3) |
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14 | (5) |
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Connected claims: Article 6(1) |
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19 | (1) |
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Third party proceedings: Article 6(2) |
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20 | (2) |
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Other available heads of special jurisdiction |
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22 | (4) |
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Heads of special jurisdiction which are unlikely to apply |
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26 | (4) |
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The special protective regimes: insurance, consumer contracts, and employment |
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30 | (3) |
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Exclusive jurisdiction: Article 22 |
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33 | (1) |
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Jurisdiction clauses: Article 23 |
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34 | (1) |
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Submission to the jurisdiction: Article 24 |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (3) |
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Interim anti-suit injunctions |
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40 | (357) |
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Jurisdiction over interim relief under the heads of jurisdiction in the Regulation |
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41 | (2) |
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Interim injunctions where the court has substantive jurisdiction under the regime |
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43 | (3) |
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Interim injunctions in single forum cases |
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46 | (1) |
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Interim injunctions sought in English court proceedings outside the regime |
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47 | (2) |
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Injunctions in support of proceedings elsewhere in the Brussels-Lugano zone |
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49 | (2) |
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Interim injunctions to protect arbitration proceedings in England (or abroad) |
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51 | (346) |
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Jurisdiction Under the Common Law Rules |
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397 | (34) |
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1 | (3) |
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Service within the jurisdiction |
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4 | (3) |
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7 | (2) |
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Service out of the jurisdiction |
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9 | (2) |
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The nature of anti-suit injunctions and CPR 6.20 |
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11 | (5) |
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The heads of jurisdiction under CPR 6.20 |
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16 | (20) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (3) |
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Additional defendants: CPR 6.20(3) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (6) |
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Contract: CPR 6.20(6) and (7) |
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30 | (2) |
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32 | (2) |
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Claims in relation to trusts: CPR 6.20(11) |
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34 | (1) |
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Heads of jurisdiction which are irrelevant to anti-suit injunctions |
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35 | (1) |
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Jurisdiction by way of counterclaim |
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36 | (1) |
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Discretion under CPR 6.20 |
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37 | (3) |
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40 | (3) |
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Jurisdiction and interim anti-suit injunctions |
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43 | (388) |
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Does jurisdiction over the substantive dispute bring with it jurisdiction over interim relief? |
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44 | (9) |
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Jurisdiction based on submission |
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53 | (3) |
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Jurisdiction based on presence within the jurisdiction |
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56 | (1) |
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Service of interim anti-suit injunctions out of the jurisdiction under CPR 6.20 |
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57 | (2) |
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Interim relief in support of foreign proceedings: CPR 6.20(4) |
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59 | (1) |
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Jurisdiction and interim injunctions in support of arbitration |
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60 | (371) |
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431 | (38) |
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Claim for a final injuction |
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433 | (3) |
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436 | (3) |
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Application for an interim injunction with notice |
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439 | (4) |
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443 | (3) |
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Application for an interim injunction without notice, together with an application to serve proceedings out of the jurisdiction |
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446 | (4) |
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450 | (4) |
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Witness evidence in support |
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454 | (6) |
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Injunction sought to enforce an arbitration clause by Arbitration Claim Form |
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460 | (4) |
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Interim non-contractual ant-suit injunction sought in existing proceedings |
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464 | (3) |
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467 | (2) |
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