ARKWRIGHT MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. v. BRYANSTON INSURANCE CO. LTD. AND OTHERS

[1990] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 70

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Potter

Reinsurance - Stay of action - Reinsured claimed under reinsurance - Claim within scope of Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Convention - Whether Court had discretion to stay action on grounds of forum non conveniens or lis alibi pendens - Whether reinsurers had established New York a more appropriate forum for resolution of dispute - Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act, 1982.