The members of 5 St James Court are renowned for their work in heavyweight commercial litigation, international arbitration, and specialised expertise in insolvency, banking and finance matters. Ravindra Chetty SC has distinguished himself in appearing for the Indian government in an injunctive action to permanently restrain an investment company from pursuing with arbitration proceedings in CC/Devas (Mauritius) Ltd v The Republic of India, as well as successfully defending before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council election petitions entered against several Members of Parliament in Surendra Dayal v Pravind Kumar Jugnauth. Avinash Sunassee has also notably appeared before the Privy Council in a case concerning Norwich Pharmacal relief against a local bank in Stanford Asset Holdings Ltd v AfrAsia Bank Ltd.
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