AGNEW (SUING ON HIS OWN BEHALF AND IN A REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY ON BEHALF OF ALL MEMBERS OF LLOYD’S SYNDICATES 672, 79, 1023 AND 590) AND ORS v LÄNSFÖRSÄKRINGSBOLAGENS AB

[2000] Lloyd's Rep IR 317

HOUSE OF LORDS

Before Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Woolf MR, Lord Cooke of Thorndon, Lord Hope of Craighead and Lord Millett

Reinsurance - Jurisdiction - Lugano Convention 1989, Arts 5(1) and 7 - Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 - Application to set aside writ - Allegation by reinsurers of misrepresentation - Whether reinsurance a “matter relating to insurance” within Art 7 - Whether duty to make fair presentation constituted “obligation in question” within Art 5(1).