The London Steam-Ship Owners' Mutual Insurance Association Ltd v The Kingdom of Spain
Decision date: 24 July 2020
Neutral citation: [2020] EWHC 1920 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
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This case concerns four related Part 11 applications by the London Steam-Ship Owners' Mutual Insurance Association Ltd against Spain and France arising from enforcement of arbitral awards and related judgments connected to the Prestige pollution incident. A material issue was whether the States enjoyed state immunity and whether the English court had jurisdiction over the Award Claims and the Judgment Claims. The judge concluded (on the material before him) that the States were not immune from any of the four actions, that the Court has jurisdiction in respect of the Award Claims, and that the Court has no jurisdiction or should decline jurisdiction in relation to the Judgment Claims.
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