Dornoch Ltd. & Ors v The Mauritius Union Assurance Company Ltd. & Anor
Decision date: 19 August 2005
Neutral citation: [2005] EWHC 1887 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
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This is a reinsurance dispute arising from a large fraud at MCB and claims under direct insurance and excess reinsurance policies placed in London. The court considered whether England was the appropriate forum and whether anti-suit injunctions obtained by the reinsurers should be maintained. The judge held that England was the more appropriate forum for the reinsurance action but discharged the ex parte anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunctions because the defendant-in-guarantee proceedings in Mauritius were not shown to be vexatious or oppressive.
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Where concurrent proceedings are brought in a foreign court, an English anti-suit injunction will not be sustained merely because there are parallel actions; it should be refused or discharged if the foreign proceedings are not shown to be vexatious or oppressive and considerations of comity weigh against restraining the foreign action.
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