Read the full judgment text of DCEC 000545/2000 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 15 March 2001.
1. By this summons, the respondent is applying to join its insurance company as an additional respondent in these proceedings. The grounds of the application have been very helpfully set out in the summons itself. Yesterday I gave a ruling in this matter staying third party proceedings brought by the respondent against China Insurance Company Limited ("the insurance company") on the basis that the arbitration clause in the insurance policy required reference to arbitration before resort could be