Dispute Resolution roundup for week ending 12 July 2013

Table of contents

• Contents
• News analysis
• Useful application of jurisdictional rules
• Litigants in person—report
• Struck out claim not restored
• Automatically struck out claim restored
• Costs and settlement
• Overriding objective and indemnity costs
• Open justice prevails over privacy
• Circumventing pre-emption rights and s 994 unfair prejudice petition

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Article summary

The Court of Appeal in Aeroflot has delivered a wide ranging judgment in which it considered various challenges to English Court jurisdiction founded upon the Judgments Regulation, the Lugano Convention and their inter-relationship with purported exclusive jurisdiction clauses and arbitration agreements. It also ruled that both the exclusive jurisdiction clause and arbitration clause in separately negotiated contracts were binding notwithstanding that the contracts in which those clauses were contained may be void as a matter of the governing law applicable to those contracts. We continue to focus on providing a roundup of key news stories from the last week highlighting their practical implications as well as updating our Practice Notes to ensure you are kept up to date.