Sokana Industries Inc. v Freyre & Company Inc.

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1994
Date1994
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
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7 cases
  • WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 13 May 2002
    ...Sennar (No 2), The [1985] 1 WLR 490; [1985] 1 Lloyd's Rep 521; [1985] 2 All ER 104 (refd) Sokana Industries Inc v Freyre & Co Inc [1994] 2 Lloyd's Rep 57 (distd) Tang Hsiu Lan, a bankrupt, Official Assignee of the estate of v Pua Ai Seok [2001] 1 SLR (R) 656; [2001] 2 SLR 436 (refd) Tracomi......
  • AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP v Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 16 April 2010
    ...in Cetelem, referred to in paragraph 18(ii) above, but from passages in a number of other reported decisions, such as Sokana Industries Inc v Freyre & Co Inc [1994] 2 Lloyd's Rep 57 at 66, Elektrim SA v Vivendi Universal (No 2) [2007] 2 Lloyd's Rep 8 at paragraphs 48, 52 and Starlight Shi......
  • AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP v Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 May 2011
    ...caution". Therefore, I do not consider that Channel Tunnel assists Mr White in the present case on the question of jurisdiction. 52 Sokana v. Freyre [1994] 2 Lloyd's Rep was also concerned with the 1950 Act and its section 12(6)(h). The defendant had commenced an arbitration in which it cla......
  • AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP v Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 June 2013
    ...caution", because English courts "will not lightly interfere with the conduct of proceedings in a foreign court": see eg Sokana Industries Inc v Freyre & Co Inc [1994] 2 Lloyd's Rep 57, 66, per Colman J. But in Aggeliki Charis Cia Maritime SA v Pagnan SpA (The "Angelic Grace") [1995] 1 Ll......
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