The English High Court’s judgment in the case of Michael Cherney v Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska [2008] EWHC 1530 on 3 July 2008, was highlighted by the press for its arguably unprecedented admission of jurisdiction in cases where there is proof of a risk that justice would not be delivered in the natural jurisdiction for the case. The main question the Court had asked itself pertained to the test that had been established in previous cases for the admittance of the English courts’ jurisdiction in cases that have almost no connection at all to the UK. The pertinent question being: Would justice be put…