English Court Confirms That It Does Not Have Exclusive Jurisdiction To Grant Interim Relief In Support Of An English Arbitration

By Thomas Yates, Carinne Maisel and Anna Sokolovskaya Summary In U&M Mining Zambia Ltd v Konkola Copper Mines Plc $(2013$) EWHC 260 (Comm), the Commercial Court of the High Court of England and Wales recently considered whether, pending the formation of an arbitral tribunal whose seat is London, English courts have exclusive jurisdiction to grant interim relief to the exclusion of national courts in other jurisdictions.