“Come one, come all”: the Court of Appeal opens the floodgates and expands the scope of the jurisdictional gateways

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Eurasia v Aguad [2018] EWCA Civ 1742 -

The Court of Appeal (“CoA“) has held that two of the “general grounds” jurisdictional gateways (as opposed to those gateways which operate only in relation to a specific type of claim) are complementary to each other, such that additional foreign defendants can be brought within English jurisdiction despite the case against those additional defendants having a merely tangential connection to England.

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