Commercial Court

CL-2024-000452 - [2025] EWHC 2217 (Comm)

Fecha: 26-Ago-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2217 (Comm)

Case No: CL-2024-000452

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

KING'S BENCH DIVISION

COMMERCIAL COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

Rolls Building, Fetter Lane,

London, EC4A 1NL

Date: 26/08/2025

Before :

THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE HENSHAW

Between:

(1) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA

(2) ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA

Claimants

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LOUIS EMOVBIRA WILLIAMS

Defendant

Edward Levey KC (instructed by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP) for the Claimants

Oluwole Ogunbiyi (Direct Access) for the Defendant

Hearing date: 11 July 2025

Draft judgment circulated to parties: 31 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on [date] by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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Mr Justice Henshaw:

(A) INTRODUCTION 1

(B) MAIN FACTS 2

(1) Power to grant an anti-enforcement injunction 3

(2) Applicable test 6

(D) APPLICATION 7

(E) CONCLUSION 8