European Law – The lis pendens provisions of the Brussels Convention and anti-suit injunctions

The author examines, through a discussion of the BNFL case, the sort of procedural issues which are likely to occur when parallel proceedings ("dispute elsewhere pending") are being litigated in states which have adopted the Brussels convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. Article by Jeffrey Terry (King Street Chambers, Manchester) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.