Injunctions

Members of Chambers have extensive experience of obtaining and resisting injunctions, both in substantive disputes and to restrain foreign proceedings.

Their experience in this type of work reaches across all areas of commercial law, from civil fraud, where they are frequently involved in obtaining freezing and proprietary injunctions, to shipping, where they are accustomed to working with foreign lawyers to procure the arrest of vessels and other maritime property abroad, as well as securing vessels’ release from arrest.

Members, at both silk and junior level, are particularly skilled in seeking and obtaining urgent interim injunctions, frequently on a ‘without notice’ basis, and providing related advice. The need for an anti-suit injunction will typically arise in cases involving complex conflict of laws / jurisdiction issues, and members are experienced in working as part of an international legal team to make such applications in parallel with applications to stay proceedings abroad.

Notable cases

Examples of recent or high-profile cases in which members of Chambers have been involved are:

• Enka Insaat vs Sanayi A.S. v. OOO Insurance Company Chubb [2020] UKSC 38 concerning the availability of anti-suit injunctions in aid of arbitration, described by The Lawyer as “a landmark judgment that is likely to become the leading authority in this area”
• Harcus Sinclair LLP v Your lawyers Ltd [2021] UKSC 32
• Lakatamia v Nobu Su [2019] EWCA Civ 2203 (freezing injunctions, search orders, contempt of court)
• HSBC Bank PLC v Pearl Corp [2019] EWCH 231 (Comm)
• Impala Warehousing and Logistics (Shanghai) Co Ltd v Wanxiang Resources (Singapore) Pte Ltd. [2015] EWHC 811 (Comm) (anti-suit injunction preventing the defendant from pursuing proceedings in the Shanghai).
• Republic of Djibouti v. Boreh [2015] EWHC 769 (Comm) (application to set aside a freezing injunction and proprietary injunction)
• Orb a.r.l and Ors v Andrew Joseph Ruhan [2016] EWHC 850 (Comm)