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The Magellan Spirit [2016]

“Commercial Court rejects Owners’ arguments of (i) agency, (ii) incorporation and (iii) express agreement and also considers their delay in applying is sufficient to reject Owners’ anti-suit injunction against Nigerian cargo claim in Nigeria.”

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JSC BTA Bank v. Ablyazov and Khrapunov [2016]

“Whilst breach of a Freezing Order is punishable by imprisonment, the Court cannot order damages against the person in contempt, because the law of contempt is concerned with public interest and not private compensation. But a conspiracy to injure another by conspiring to breach a Freezing Order amounts to the tort of conspiracy to injure by unlawful means and may be compensated by an award of damages.”

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