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UK courts have since interpreted <em>Okpabi <\/em>as authority for the proposition that determining whether a claim can be brought against a claimant outside the UK is a fact specific exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Shah v L3 Commercial Training Solutions Ltd<\/em><a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> (\u201c<em>Shaw<\/em>\u201d), the court cited <em>Okpabi <\/em>in deciding that a UK company could potentially be liable for a foreign company that it controlled. In this case, an action was brought against an English company in relation to a death that had occurred at a Portuguese flight school. The English company controlled the flight school, and initially accepted that it was the flight school\u2019s parent company. It then changed its evidence regarding the corporate structure of the two companies and stated that it was not the parent company of the Portuguese flight school and sought to have the action summarily dismissed, citing <em>Okpabi <\/em>in its argument that it could not be liable for the actions of the Portuguese company if it was not its parent company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court found that this was an overly narrow reading of <em>Okpabi<\/em>, and that although \u201c<em>Okpabi <\/em>was considering the issue in the context of parent\/subsidiary relationship rather than any other situation\u2026 the determination of whether there is control and whether it was, in fact, used will be fact specific.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> The court found that the control that the English company held over the Portuguese flight school gave rise to an arguable cause of action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other decisions interpreting <em>Okpabi <\/em>follow that whether a party outside the jurisdiction can be served with a claim in the UK is fact specific. The court must consider the particulars of the claim to determine whether there is a triable issue and a real prospect of success.<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> For example, in <em>VTB Commodities Trading DAC v JSC Antipinsky Refinery<\/em><a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a> the court relied on <em>Okpabi <\/em>for the proposition that when determining whether it is appropriate to serve a claimant outside of the jurisdiction, \u201cthe Court has to form a view and try to be far sighted about the likely future course of the various claims, and in doing so at this stage it must be guided by the pleaded case.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a> Other decisions have cited <em>Okapbi <\/em>as authority for the idea that mini trials should be avoided when determining whether there is a triable issue against a party outside of the jurisdiction.<a href=\"#_ftn7\" name=\"_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Okpabi <\/em>seems to suggest that a claim can be brought against a UK company relating to actions of overseas subsidiaries or affiliates that it controls, even where a controlling company is not the parent company of its overseas subsidiary. Insurers need to be mindful of the potential for an increased number of claims arising from the actions of Canadian (and other) companies\u2019 foreign counterparts and make enquiries regarding such potential relationships when assessing risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Okpabi &amp; Others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc &amp; Another [2021] UKSC 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> <em>Shah v L3 Commercial Training Solutions Ltd <\/em>2021 WL04895900<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> <em>Ibid<\/em> at para .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> <em>ID v LU <\/em>2021 WL 03022722; <em>FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Lady Brownline <\/em>2021 UKSC 45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> <em>VTB Commodities Trading DAC v JSC Antipinsky Refinery <\/em>2021 WL03409562.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" name=\"_ftn6\">[6]<\/a> <em>Ibid <\/em>at para .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" name=\"_ftn7\">[7]<\/a> <em>Fogla v Family Officer Ltd <\/em>2021 WL 01081589;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision of the UK Supreme Court in Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and another[1](\u201cOkpabi\u201d) found that a UK parent company arguably owed a duty of care to Nigerian claimants relating to the actions of its Nigerian subsidiary. 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