Direct Claims Against Insurers And Anti-Suit Injunctions

In Shipowners' Mutual Protection & Indemnity Association (Luxembourg) -v- Containerships Denizcilik Nakliyat ve Ticaret AS (The "Yusuf Cepnioglu") [2016] EWCA Civ. 386, the Court of Appeal considered the juridical nature of a foreign statute which gives a victim (in this case, a charterer) the right to sue a defendant's insurer (in this case, an owners' club) directly without first suing the insured, and in the circumstances of the case, whether it was appropriate to uphold an anti-suit injunction ("ASI") which had been made by the court below.

Reliance was placed on the previous decisions dealing with similar foreign legislation...