International arbitration, Commercial disputesMonday 19 May 2025
Daniel Jukes has written a case note on Manta Penyez Shipping Inc and another v Zuhoor Alsaeed Foodstuff Company which has recently been published in LexisNexis.
The decision of Cockerill J reinforces the ability of a non-party who is not a contracting party to an arbitration or exclusive jurisdiction clause (and who denies they are a contracting party) to enforce that clause against a party to foreign proceedings who is asserting a claim in those proceedings which is subject to that clause.
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