JSC BTA Bank v Khrapunov [2018]

JSC BTA Bank v Khrapunov [2018] UKSC 19 — 21 March 2018 (Mance, Sumption, Hodge, Lloyd-Jones, Briggs LLJ)

“A defendant sentenced to imprisonment for contempt of Court for flouting a world-wide freezing order, fled the jurisdiction and remains unfound. The claimant bank then pursued the defendant's son-in-law, domiciled in Switzerland, for damages flowing from a conspiratorial agreement to assist in defeating the freezing order. The Supreme Court confirmed that the necessary 'harmful event', namely the making of the conspiratorial agreement, occurred in England (even if its implementation took place elsewhere), thus giving the English Courts jurisdiction, in this case under the Lugano convention.”

Louise Glover
E. G. Arghyrakis & Co.
11th April 2018