Forum Non Conveniens in UK Law

  • Spiliada Maritime Corporation v Cansulex Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 19 November 1986
    ... ... his action in this country, the court, applying the doctrine of forum non conveniens will only stay the action if the defendant satisfies the ... ...
  • MacShannon v Rockware Glass Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 26 January 1978
    ... ... of Appeal acknowledged that Scotland was the natural and appropriate forum for the Fyfe and MacShannon actions. Stephenson L.J., expressed it most ... to substitute for it the Scottish legal doctrine of forum non conveniens. The House unanimously rejected this invitation. The minority were of ... ...
  • Connelly v RTZ Corporation Plc and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1997
    ... ... of the proceedings on the ground that Namibia was the appropriate forum for the trial of the action. It was later conceded by the plaintiff that ... for a stay of proceedings on the principle of forum non conveniens, the fact that the plaintiff is in receipt of legal aid in this country ... ...
  • Lubbe and Others v Cape Plc and related appeals
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 2000
    ... ... defendant promptly applied to stay the proceedings on the ground of forum non conveniens. This application came before Mr. Michel Kallipetis Q.C ... ...
  • Airbus Industrie GIE v Patel
    • House of Lords
    • 02 April 1998
    ... ... There was, at the material time, no principle of forum non conveniens applicable in Texas on the basis of which Airbus could seek ... ...
  • De Dampierre v de Dampierre
    • House of Lords
    • 02 April 1987
    ... ... : ( a ) the defendant must satisfy the court that there is another forum to whose jurisdiction he is amenable in which justice can be done between ... to order a stay of proceedings on the ground of forum non conveniens. In 1973, the court would only exercise its inherent jurisdiction to stay ... ...
  • AK Investment CJSC v Kyrgyz Mobil Tel Ltd
    • Privy Council
    • 10 March 2011
    ... ... by the KFG Companies in the Isle of Man, or whether the appropriate forum is Kyrgyzstan, as the Appellants contend ... 5 This, like many ... foreign court has been examined in the context of forum non conveniens questions. It was said in Blanco v Banco Industrial de Venezuela , 997 ... ...
  • Bank of Tokyo Ltd v Karoon (Note)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 May 1984
    ... ... be stated as one proposition, namely, that an English court is the forum conveniens because it can without difficulty resolve what duty of ... ...
  • Reichhold Norway ASA and Another v Goldman Sachs International (A Firm)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 June 1999
    ... ... jurisdiction to interfere in the claimant's choice of defendant and forum, it can do so only in exceptional circumstances …." ... v Cansulex Ltd [1987] AC 460 dealing with forum non conveniens. Mr McCaughran submitted, by analogy, that in a case such as the present ... ...
  • VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corpn
    • Supreme Court
    • 06 February 2013
    ... ... to show that England was clearly or distinctly the appropriate forum for resolution of VTB's tort claims. As to piercing the corporate veil, ... application for a stay of proceedings on grounds of forum non conveniens, that "[t]his is a field in which differing conclusions can be ... ...
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