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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

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#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

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23/05/2016

Raphael QC on Petter v EMC: anti-suit injunctions and comity

This is an archived article, and some links may not work. Contact us if you have any questions.

Readers may be interested in a recent article on anti-suit injunctions written by 20 Essex Street’s Thomas Raphael QC.   The article, published in the LMCLQ, comments on the Court of Appeal’s controversial decision in Petter v EMC [2015] EWCA Civ 828, [2016] lLPr 6.

As the article exposes, the English court’s case law on anti-suit injunctions has become inconsistent and is in danger of failing to respect comity. The article stands back and takes a high level view of the fundamental principles which are necessary to give international legitimacy to the remedy.

The article makes for interesting reading and is highly recommended.   It has already been cited before the courts on three occasions.

The reference for the full text of the article, based on and developed from Tom’s lecture to Combar in December 2015, is [2016] LMCLQ 256.  Tom is also the author of the standard work on anti-suit injunctions: “The Anti-Suit Injunction” published by OUP.

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