Al Sadik v Investcorp: Cayman Grand Court provides guidance on interim payments and orders consequent upon the grant of an anti-suit injunction
02 Sep 2019The August 2019 judgment of Kawaley J, sitting in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the “Grand Court”), in Riad Tawfiq Al Sadik v Investcorp Bank B.S.C & Ors (FSD 47 of 2009) has provided litigants with judicial guidance of general application concerning interim payments on account of costs. The reasons provided are the most detailed since the introduction of the interim payments jurisdiction into the Grand Court Rules in 2016, concluding that the Rules contain “an implicit starting assumption that an interim payment should be made”. This is in stark contrast to the approach taken prior to the introduction of the rule, when the inherent jurisdiction to order interim payments was exercised only in “rare and exceptional circumstances”.