Brussels Jurisdiction and Judgments Regulation - Semtech Corporation and others v Lacuna Space Ltd and others
Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Iain Purvis QC) Semtech Corporation and others v Lacuna Space Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 1143 (Pat) (5 May 2021) This was a challenge to the court's jurisdiction by two former employees of the third claimant under art 22.1 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters OJ L 351, 20.12.2012, p. 1–32 ("the Brussels Recast Regulation) . That article provides that an employer may bring proceedings against its employee only in the courts of the Member State in which the employee is domiciled. The application came on before Mr Iain Purvis QC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court on 30 April 2021. At para [75] of his judgment in S emtech Corporation and others v Lacuna Space Ltd and other s [2021] EWHC 1143 (Pat) (5 May 2021), the learned deputy judge found that he had...