Introduction

On 16th January 2005 I reported that the English High Court (Nigel Teare QC sitting as a Deputy Judge) had dismissed an application by Svenska Petroleum AB to strike out or dismiss an application by the Government of Lithuania (GRL) seeking set-aside, on grounds of sovereign immunity, of Svenska's attempted enforcement in England of a Danish arbitral award despite the GRL's active participation in all aspects of the arbitral proceedings and despite its failure to challenge either the interim or the final award in the Danish Court. The Deputy Judge had concluded, albeit ...