Taming Anti-suit Injunctions

Abstract

This essay casts a critical gaze at the willingness of courts in the common law world, and elsewhere, to grant injunctions to restrain proceedings before courts of other legal systems (so called ‘anti-suit injunctions’). It scrutinises the legal basis for the granting of such relief by the courts of England and Wales, and seeks to build upon that foundation by identifying reasons for and against the granting of anti-suit injunctions and ascribing limits to the courts’ power to do so.