Introduction

I bring you a unique arbitration case. A specially-constituted English Court of Appeal, including the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls, has just decided [March 2006] a major issue of principle in a truly extraordinary case, Weissfisch v Julius & Ors [2006] EWCA Civ 218. The full judgment (given by the LCJ) is at www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/218.html. The case was an application for permission to appeal from an order of David Steel J dismissing the claimant's) application for an interim injunction against the first defendant, a Mr ...