Zephyrus Capital Aviation Partners 1d Limited & Ors v Fidelis Underwriting Limited & Ors
Decision date: 28 March 2024
Neutral citation: [2024] EWHC 734 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
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This judgment concerns challenges to the English court's jurisdiction to hear claims under Operator Policies relating to aircraft that remained in Russia after its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, centring on whether reinsurance contracts with cut-through clauses and Russian governing/jurisdiction clauses permit English proceedings. The material issues include the contractual documentation (certificates, slips, cut-through clauses), whether Russian law or measures affect entitlement to recovery, and contested factual and expert matters about Russian state influence and the effect of Russian measures. The supplied text does not include the court's final dispositive decision on the jurisdictional challenges.
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