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LLR: Insurance & Reinsurance

DORNOCH LTD v MAURITIUS UNION ASSURANCE CO LTD

[2006] Lloyd's Rep IR 786

COURT OF APPEAL

Before Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division, Lord Justice May and Lord Justice Tuckey

Reinsurance - Conflict of laws - Direct bankers’ blanket policy governed by law of Mauritius - Reinsurance governed by English law - Proceedings for negative declaration issued by reinsurers in England - Reinsurers then joined to action by assured against insurers in Mauritius - Whether reinsurance incorporated an exclusive jurisdiction clause - Law applicable to reinsurance - Rome Convention 1980, articles 2 and 3 - Whether England the most convenient forum for action - Action in tort by reinsurers for fraudulent misrepresentation - Law applicable to tort claim - Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995, sections 11 and 12.

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