{"id":208,"date":"2024-02-20T06:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/?p=208"},"modified":"2024-02-20T06:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:50:54","slug":"english-court-decision-on-anti-arbitration-injunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/2024\/02\/20\/english-court-decision-on-anti-arbitration-injunctions\/","title":{"rendered":"English court decision on anti-arbitration injunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court in London has granted an anti-arbitration injunction to prevent the commencement of an arbitration within the context of a series of long-running disputes between the parties.<\/p>\n<p>The case is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWHC\/Comm\/2024\/231.html\"><em>Sodzawiczny v Smith (Re Arbitration Claim)<\/em> [2024] EWHC 231 (Comm)<\/a>. The decision contains a useful and detailed review of the case law regarding anti-arbitration injunctions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The court held that the planned new arbitration amounted to a collateral attack upon pre-existing awards and was an attempt to challenge those awards other than by the agreed mechanism contained in the <em>Arbitration Act 1996<\/em>. The decision terms such attempts as &#8220;Non-Compliant Challenges&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In granting the injunction the court decided that it would not leave the question of its own jurisdiction<em>\u00a0<\/em>to the Tribunal in the new arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>In categorising the different circumstances which can give rise to an anti-arbitration injunction, the emphasis is placed on preventing an unsuccessful party from re-litigating. It will need to be for other decisions to establish the parameters of when the court would stop a\u00a0<em>successful <\/em>party from bringing the same claims again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court in London has granted an anti-arbitration injunction to prevent the commencement of an arbitration within the context of a series of long-running disputes between the parties. The case is Sodzawiczny v Smith (Re Arbitration Claim) [2024] EWHC 231 (Comm). The decision contains a useful and detailed review of the case law regarding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/2024\/02\/20\/english-court-decision-on-anti-arbitration-injunctions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;English court decision on anti-arbitration injunctions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,9,135,139],"ppma_author":[131],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anti-arbitration-injunctions","tag-arbitration","tag-arbitration-act","tag-english-courts"],"authors":[{"term_id":131,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/internationalarbitration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}