Aline Tramp SA v Jordan International Insurance Co (The “Flag Evi”) – QBD (Comm Ct) (Sarah Cockerill QC, sitting as a Deputy Judge) [2016] EWHC 1317 (Comm) – 3 June 2016

Practice – Anti-suit injunction – Cargo interests bringing foreign proceedings against shipowners and P&I Club in breach of London arbitration clause in bills of lading – Foreign court likely to give effect to Hamburg Rules so as to confer jurisdiction – Whether good reason not to grant injunction – Whether P&I Club entitled to injunction on basis of English jurisdiction clause in Club’s letter of undertaking – Whether foreign proceedings vexatious and oppressive

The insurers of cargo carried on board the vessel Flag Evi (the cargo insurers) brought a cargo claim in the Jordanian courts against the owners of the vessel (the shipowners) and their P&I insurers (the Club).