Commercial court litigation is often seen as a tactical weapon that provides a means to a greater end, in an international context the end perhaps being the securing of an English judgment that might then assist parallel...more
8/17/2018
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Arbitration Awards ,
Commercial Court ,
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Foreign Judgments ,
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A trend has emerged which demonstrates the London Commercial Court’s increasing willingness to adopt a pragmatic approach to the method of service of documents on a foreign State in appropriate cases, even though the...more
Obtaining a judgment is one thing, enforcing it is another. The location of a judgment debtor’s assets can be unknown or deliberately hidden. A judgment creditor may therefore wish to obtain information from a judgment debtor...more
The international caseload of the English commercial court is enormous. A survey of 705 commercial court judgments handed down in the past five years showed that about 62% of the litigants involved were based outside England...more