Lis pendens: the parties’ choice of jurisdiction matters under the Recast Regulation

This article by Jonathan Lewis was first published in Butterworths’ Journal of International Banking and Finance Law.

This article considers the Commercial Court’s decision in Barclays v ENPAM which provides useful guidance as to the principles involved in determining whether two sets of proceedings concern the same cause of action and guidance as to when summary judgment applications will be heard concurrently with jurisdictional applications.

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This article forms part of an ongoing series being written by members of the Henderson Chambers Banking Finance and Consumer Credit group for the Butterworths’ Journal of International Banking and Finance Law.