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Delhi High Court Grants Rare Anti-Enforcement Injunction: Implications for International Disputes

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By Ananya Bhargava, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, India.

Recently, the Delhi High Court in the case of Honasa Consumer Limited v RSM General Trading LLC granted an anti-enforcement injunction against the execution proceedings instituted in the Dubai Court on the ground that it threatened the arbitral process in India. The Court deemed the proceedings before the Dubai Court as an attempt to frustrate a possible arbitration envisaged by the contract between the parties.  The injunction was granted under S.9 of the Indian Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 as an “interim measure.”  This is a significant turning point in the intersection of arbitration and cross-border litigation in India since the remedy of anti-enforcement injunction is rarely granted by judicial authorities across jurisdictions.

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Third Issue of the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly for 2024

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The third issue of the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly was recently released. It contains the following article, case note and book reviews:

Adrian Briggs, “The Hague 2019 Convention”

The Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 2019 will come into force for the United Kingdom on 1 July 2025. It will represent the principal means for the mutual recognition of judgments between the United Kingdom and the European Union (and any other states adopting it), and it is for this reason timely to examine the instrument which will replace, but certainly not replicate, Chapter III of the Brussels I Regulation. In discussing the structure and detail of the Convention, it is noticeable how far it falls short of the pre-existing regime.

Pau S Davies and Katherine Ratcliffe, “Anti-Arbitration Injunctions and Stays to Arbitration”

Andrew Tettenborn, “Book Review – The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention”

Adrian Briggs, “Book Review – Governing aw Risks in International Business Transactions”