Weekly Update: A Summary Of Recent Developments In Insurance, Reinsurance And Litigation Law - 16/11

This Week's Caselaw

DSG International Sourcing & Anor v UMC Effect of a defective Form N510

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2011/1116.html

Steel J concluded that the English court had jurisdiction under Regulation 44/2001 to hear a claim brought by the English claimant against the Slovakian defendant. However, the claimant had made a mistake when completing Form N510. Where permission to serve a claim form out of the jurisdiction is not required because (as here) the defendant is domiciled in an EU Member State (or in a country which has signed the Brussels or Lugano Conventions), the claimant must file with the claim form a notice containing a statement of the grounds on which the claimant is entitled to serve without permission (Form N510). The claimant had mistakenly not asserted jurisdiction under the Regulation and had instead asserted jurisdiction under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, without specifying any relevant article. That was