Dornoch Ltd & Ors v Mauritius Union Assurance Company Ltd & Anor
Decision date: 10 April 2006
Neutral citation: [2006] EWCA Civ 389
Court: Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
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This is an appeal about whether a London-market reinsurance (the Reinsurance) of a Mauritian bank's excess premises and transit policy was subject to a Mauritius jurisdiction clause and whether England was the appropriate forum for the reinsurers' declaratory and tort claims. The judge held that English law was the proper law, that England was the appropriate forum, and that the reinsurers had a good arguable case that no Mauritius jurisdiction clause was incorporated into the Reinsurance; the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal.
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