ASSURANCES GENERALES DE FRANCE IART V RHONE MEDITERRANEE COMPAGNIE FRANCESEDI ASSICURAZIONE E RIASSICURANZIONI AND OTHERS UNION ATLANTIQUE SA V RHONE MEDITERRANEE COMPAGNIE FRANCESE DI ASSICURAZIONE E RIASSICURANZIONI AND OTHERS SAME V SAME

(1992) 1 Re LR 360

Queen’s Bench Division Commercial Court

Before His Honour Judge Diamond QC

Jurisdiction - Seisin - Brussels Convention 1968 - Proceedings in Italy and England in disputes between reassured, reinsurers, retrocessionaires and broker arising out of reinsurance programme - - Whether English court or Italian court “first seised” of dispute - Whether English action and Italian proceedings were “related actions” within Brussels Convention 1968 article 22 - Whether reamendments to writ and statement of claim permitted.