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Vik v Deutsche Bank Ag: CA 6 Sep 2018

DB sought to enforce payment of a judgment debt of US$320 million. The appellant was accused of failing to comply orders designed to facilitate collection. There was uncertainty in the rules: ‘this is a matter where consideration by the Rules Committee would be most welcome. Putting to one side the cases in which (on the view I take) permission is not required to serve an alleged contemnor out of the jurisdiction, it must be in the public interest that there should be a specific jurisdictional gateway permitting such service on an officer of a company, where the fact that he is out of the jurisdiction is no bar to the making of a committal application. ‘

Citations:

[2018] EWCA Civ 2011)

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Jurisdiction, Contempt of Court

Updated: 27 April 2022; Ref: scu.622329

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