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Arbitration
In an important decision on the limits of the court’s powers in support of arbitration, the Commercial Court has confirmed that a foreign individual who was not a party to an arbitration agreement could not be made subject to a freezing order under the jurisdiction in section 44 Arbitration Act 1996, and so permission to serve out was refused.
Trans-Oil International SA v Savoy Trading LP & Anr