Interim relief: relief against foreign judgments

The facts of E-Star Shipping and Trading Co Ltd v Delta Corp Shipping Ltd [2022] EWHC 3165 (Comm) were relatively unusual, and required Jacobs J to consider interesting questions relating to the ability of the English court to grant relief where there had been a foreign judgment in proceedings that could have been conducted in arbitration in England. In the event the matter proved to be straightforward, but there are useful comments in the judgment on the operation of the court's power under section 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996 to make an order preserving assets.

E-Star : the facts