14.03.2022

Anastasia Tropsha reviewed a recent Court of Appeal decision in the PIFSS v Pictet proceedings, which focuses on specific elements of jurisdiction and challenges to it under CPR Part 11. The decision considers, in particular, the rules surrounding proof of agreement to exclusive jurisdiction clauses under Article 23 of the Lugano Convention 2007 and forum non conveniens arguments in the context of a plethora of foreign, variously domiciled individual and corporate defendants.

This article was first published on LexisPSL on 9 March 2022 and can be found here.

The full text of the Judgement is available here.

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