MAERSK A/S v MERCURIA ENERGY TRADING SA

[2022] Lloyd's Rep. Plus 67

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before His Honour Judge Pelling QC (Sitting as a Judge of the High Court)

Practice – Anti-suit injunction – Contracts of carriage containing exclusive English jurisdiction clause and one-year time bar – Cargo owners bringing proceedings in Turkey against carrier and others – Carrier applying for anti-suit injunction – Whether injunction should be refused on grounds of delay or of prejudice to cargo owners by reason of time-bar – Whether court should impose conditions – Senior Courts Act 1981, section 37.