CPR r.6.15

Success for Justina Stewart in Anglo-Indian $17 million banking claim

Justina Stewart successfully secured summary judgment in the sum of over $ 17 million and an award of indemnity costs. The hard-fought application involved a plethora of interesting issues – including regarding the Hague Convention on Service and whether the High Court’s jurisdiction was supplanted in the context of a suite of documents containing different dispute resolution clauses. In Punjab National Bank (International) Ltd v MBL Highway Development Company Ltd, Justina Stewart, instructed by Milan Kapadia of Royds Withy King, acted for the claimant in proceedings against the subsidiary of an Indian entity which delivers and operates large-scale infrastructure projects. The Bank provided financing for an Indian highway / toll road project, in the context of a complex collection of…

Banking, News 24 Jun, 2020