AUTORIDAD DEL CANAL DE PANAMÁ v SACYR SA AND OTHERS

[2017] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 351

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Justice BLAIR

Arbitration – Stay of judicial proceedings – Claims under guarantees governed by English law and English exclusive jurisdiction – Main agreement governed by Panamanian law and subject to arbitration – Whether guarantees were “on demand” – Whether claim in judicial proceedings was “in relation to a matter” subject to arbitration – Arbitration Act 1996, section 9 – Stay on case management grounds.