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Article: Overseas Director Cannot Be Summoned To England For Questioning On Company's Assets.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Company SAL and another [2009] UKHL 431
Amongst the judgments handed down on the last day of sitting of the House of Lords, the Law Lords delivered a significant judgment concerning the extent of the territorial jurisdiction of the English courts. Unanimously, their Lordships granted an appeal by a former director of a corporate judgment debtor located overseas against an order granted under Part 71 of the CPR to the judgment creditor that the former director attend court in England for an examination as to the judgment debtors assets (which were also all located overseas).
The case arose out of long-running ...