Gater Assets Ltd v Nak Naftogaz Ukrainiy
Decision date: 22 March 2007
Neutral citation: [2007] EWHC 697 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
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This commercial judgment concerns an application by Nak Naftogaz Ukrainiy for security for costs against Gater Assets Ltd, the assignee of a New York Convention arbitral award, in relation to Naftogaz’s application to set aside an enforcement order made under s.101(2) of the Arbitration Act. The material issue was whether security for costs should be ordered against Gater given the circumstances, including allegations of fraud. The judge found that Naftogaz had shown a case of fraud and, notwithstanding the hurdles to its set-aside application and other submissions, ordered Gater to provide security for costs in the sum of £250,000.
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