Robert Goff LJ considering a request for an anti-suit ijunction, said: ‘foreign proceedings are to be viewed as vexatious or oppressive only if there is nothing which can be gained by them over and above what may be gained in local proceeding’. He went on to say: ‘Counsel suggested beguilingly that it would be technical for us to distinguish between parent and subsidiary company in this context; economically, he said, they were one. But we are concerned not with economics but with law. The distinction between the two is, in law, fundamental and cannot here be bridged.’
Judges:
Robert Goff LJ
Citations:
[1987] AC 45, [1986] 3 All ER 468, [1986] 3 WLR 414
Cited by:
Cited – Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd and Others SC 12-Jun-2013
In the course of ancillary relief proceedings in a divorce, questions arose regarding company assets owned by the husband. The court was asked as to the power of the court to order the transfer of assets owned entirely in the company’s names. The . .
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Company
Updated: 18 May 2022; Ref: scu.519364