Matthew Hoyle has recently published several case notes on the topics of injunctions, jurisdiction and the law of contempt:
- Claim rights and Wright’s claims: Pushing the limits of anti-suit injunctions [2025] LMCLQ 17 (on the decision of Mellor J in COPA v Wright [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch) to impose an unprecedented global anti-suit injunction on Dr Wright).
- Full service: Freezing injunctions and service out (again) [2025] LMCLQ 405 (on the decision of Foxton J in Bank of Dubai v Al Sari on service of freezing injunctions out of the jurisdiction in complex foreign judgment enforcement proceedings).
- Service denied [2026] LMCLQ 182 (on the decision of David Quest KC in Gilbert v Broadoak [2026] EWHC 153 (KB) setting aside permission to serve a ‘Chabra’ order out of the jurisdiction).
- Criminal contempt, grounded (2026) 142 LQR 388 (on the decision of the Court of Appeal in FW Aviation (Holdings) 1 Ltd v VietJet Aviation JSC [2025] EWCA Civ 1458 as to the relationship between civil and criminal contempt where a respondent is alleged to have undermined the ‘purpose’ of an injunction).
The notes draw on his ongoing doctoral research on injunctions at the University of Oxford, as well as his experience in practice, which regularly involves conflict of laws issues alongside freezing order and other injunctions (a notable recent example being his involvement in the PrivatBank v Kolomoisky litigation).
The notes in the LMCLQ are available to iLaw subscribers here. The note in the LQR is available to Westlaw subscribers here.