Anti-suit injunctions: proper construction of arbitration agreements

In Perkins Engines Co Ltd v Ghaddar and Another [2018] EWHC 1500 (Comm) Bryan J was required to construe a somewhat unusual clause under which the parties were to go arbitration in the absence of reciprocal enforcement arrangements between the UK and Lebanon in respect of judgments. The dispute concerned the meaning of the phrase “reciprocal enforcement procedures”.

Perkins Engines : the agreement