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13 May 2016
Issue: 7698 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Conflict of laws

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd and another v Independent Power Tanzania Ltd and others [2016] EWCA Civ 411, [2016] All ER (D) 208 (Apr)

The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, dismissed an appeal against the judge’s refusal to stay English proceedings on the grounds that Tanzania was the most appropriate forum. The defendants’ submission that proceedings in Tanzania had already begun and costs had been incurred was an appeal on fact and, as such, failed. The judge had been correct to have found that there was no abuse of process in allowing the proceedings to continue.

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