Anti-suit injunctions: criteria for grant

In RSM Production Corporation v Gaz du Cameroun SA [2023] EWHC 2820 (Comm); [2024] 1 Lloyd's Rep 133 there was a fairly straightforward application for an anti-suit injunction. The defendant raised a series of defences, including that the arbitration clause did not extend to the dispute and that the foreign proceedings were purely for interim relief in support of arbitration and were not substantive. Butcher J dismissed each of the defences put forward.

RSM: the facts