Claim No: CL-2024-000435 - [2025] EWHC 1588 (Comm)

Fecha: 26-Jun-2025

Limitation

Limitation

55.

On that basis, for the reasons I have already given, I am satisfied that it is clear beyond argument that this involves the application of the three-year limitation period in Article 219. It is clear that the claim is time barred:

Clearly Mr Al Haroun knew that the March 2014 Letter had been sent by QNB because he was involved in the arbitration in which it was deployed.

ii)

Indeed, Mr Al Haroun caused Ettizan to instruct lawyers who prepared an RFA for a claim against QNB based on the production of the March 2014 Letter.

iii)

Mr Al Haroun knew the result of the award when it came out in 2015, and of the failure of the attempt to challenge the award in February 2017.

iv)

If the latter date is taken as the date when time begins to run (although there is a strong argument that the cause of action was complete and the requisite knowledge present when the award was published in August 2015) then the claim is obviously time-barred under English law as well, such that ss.2(1) and (2) of the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 are not engaged.