Anti-arbitration injunctions: grounds for grant of relief

Foxton J has, in Sodzawiczny v Smith and Another [2024] EWHC 231 (Comm); [2024] 1 Lloyd's Rep 466, produced a judgment which will undoubtedly prove to be the definitive statement of the circumstances in which a court will grant an anti-arbitration injunction barring a person from pursuing arbitration proceedings. The decision has arisen in the context of a long-running dispute which has been both to the courts and to arbitration on a number of occasions.

Sodzawiczny: the facts