Enforcement of arbitration awards: stay for curial challenge

In Hulley Enterprises Ltd and Others v The Russian Federation [2021] EWHC 894 (Comm); [2021] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 617 Henshaw J discussed the jurisdiction of the court to maintain a stay of enforcement proceedings where there was a pending challenge to the award in the curial courts and the main defence of the award debtor was that of sovereign immunity.

Hulley : the facts