Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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SVENSKA PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AB v GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA (NO 2)

[2006] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 181

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mrs Justice Gloster

Arbitration - Sovereign immunity - Enforcement of foreign arbitration award against sovereign state - Claimant obtaining arbitration award against Lithuania in Denmark - Lithuania contesting jurisdiction of arbitrators - Whether Lithuania entitled to state immunity from enforcement of award - Arbitration Act 1996, section 103 - State Immunity Act 1978, sections 1, 2, 3 and 9.

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