There has been a further judgment at the Commercial Court in West Tankers vAllianz SpA [2012] EWHC 854 (Comm).
The case originally came to prominence because the European Court of Justice held that the English court was not entitled to make an anti-suit order to prevent proceedings in Italy in breach of an arbitration agreement providing for arbitration in London. The European Court of Justice held that it was for the Italian court to decide whether the proceedings should be stayed, under the terms of the Brussels Regulation, despite that Regulation being generally inapplicable to arbitration. More…