Anna Peccarino#9346

Anna Peccarino, MA Hons Cantab

Litigation and Dispute Resolution Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga
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Stay of court proceedings and anti-suit injunctions in support of arbitration in the Cayman Islands
Stay of court proceedings and anti-suit injunctions in support of arbitration in the Cayman Islands
Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers the power of the Cayman Islands courts to stay litigation (or court) proceedings commenced in breach of arbitration agreements in favour of arbitration pursuant to the Arbitration Law 2012. It considers, in summary terms, arbitrability (including of winding-up disputes) and the enforcement of arbitration agreements under Cayman Islands law. The Practice Note also considers the availability of anti-suit injunctions in support of arbitration proceedings under the law of the Cayman Islands. This topic may be referred to as: applying to stay litigation in favour of arbitration; applications to stay court proceedings for arbitration proceedings under Cayman law; approach of Cayman courts to arbitration clauses and agreements; and, ASIs under Cayman Islands law.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 1992

Experience

  • Ogier, Jersey, Channel Islands (2012 - 2012)
  • Public Service (2005 - 2010)
  • Maples and Calder, Cayman Islands (1996 - 2003)
  • Clifford Chance, London (1995 - 1996)
  • Simmons & Simmons, London & Paris (1990 - 1995)

Membership

  • Law Society of England and Wales (non-practising)
  • Law Society of the Cayman Islands
  • Caymanian Bar Association
  • RISA / INSOL

Qualifications

  • MA Hons Cantab in Modern and Medieval Languages – 1987
  • Common Professional and Law Society Final Examinations - 1990
  • Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in England and Wales (1992)
  • Admitted as an Attorney at Law in the Cayman Islands (1996)
  • Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean in the Territory of the British Virgin Islands (2016)
  • Registered as a Foreign Attorney by the Law Society of Hong Kong (2018)

Education

  • University of Cambridge (1984-87)
  • University of Naples, Federico II (1987-88)
  • College of Law, London (1988-90)

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