High Court has no supervisory jurisdiction over Toronto-seated arbitration (Investcom Global Ltd v PLC Investments Ltd and others)
Arbitration analysis: The High Court declined to continue interim anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunctions to restrain civil proceedings brought in Liberia in breach of an arbitration agreement, on the basis that the ICC in the pending arbitral proceedings had determined that the seat of the arbitration was Toronto, Canada, and the claimant did not have a good arguable case that the tribunal would overturn that decision and find the seat to be London. The court considered it did not have jurisdiction over the defendants under CPR 62.5(1)(c) or (2A), each of which requires that the seat of the arbitration ‘is or will be’ in England; nor did it find jurisdiction under any gateway in PD6B paragraph 3.1. Written by Hafsa Zayyan, senior associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.