In our recent newsletter we reported on the opinion of the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) delivered on a question referred to the ECJ by the House of Lords earlier in 2008 in the case of the “Front Comor” concerning the use of anti-suit injunctions by the English Courts to protect arbitration agreements. The ECJ has now given its judgment in this matter and, as was widely expected, this judgment maintains the view that anti-suit injunctions are incompatible with the Brussels Regulation (Regulation 44/2001 dealing with the allocation of jurisdiction between Members States of the EU).

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