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In considering whether the English court was the proper place for the proceedings to be brought under CPR 6.21(2A)… having considered a great deal of material, he analysed the question in two stages; at the first stage he found that the “natural forum” was Russia but at the second stage he found that ‘the risks inherent in a trial in Russia (assassination, arrest on trumped up charges, and lack of a fair trial) are sufficient to make England the forum in which the case can most suitably be tried in the interest of both parties and the ends of justice’.
— English court of appeal upholding a decision to hear a dispute between two Russian oligarchs in England rather than in Russia. Via the great John Helmer.
