CA-2025-001045-A - [2025] EWCA Civ 1300

Fecha: 13-Oct-2025

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Judgment Approved by the court for handing down.

Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 1300

Case No: CA-2025-001045-A

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

MR JUSTICE GARNHAM

[2025] EWHC 898 (KB)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 13/10/2025

Before :

LORD JUSTICE MALES

and

LORD JUSTICE ZACAROLI

Between :

(1) QATAR INVESTMENT AND PROJECTS DEVELOPMENT HOLDING CO

(2) HIS HIGHNESS SHEIKH BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

Applicants (to application for security)/Respondents to appeal

- and –

(1) PHOENIX ANCIENT ART S.A.

(2) ALI ABOUTAAM

(3) HICHAM ABOUTAAM

Respondents (to application for security)/Appellants

Philip Jones (instructed by Mackrell Solicitors) for the Applicants (Respondents to appeal)

Laurence Emmett KC (instructed by Pinsent Masons Solicitors) for the Respondents (Appellants)

Hearing date : 7 October 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 13 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.