8 Jurisdiction Agreements: Secondary Obligations

8.01 Where they are unaffected by the Brussels I Regulation, jurisdiction agreements may be enforced by staying local proceedings brought in conflict with them, or by an injunction to restrain a party from bringing or continuing proceedings before a foreign court in breach of the contract.1 The cause of action which founds the claim for relief is that there is a contractual obligation which the claimant is entitled to enforce;2 and the nature of the relief is, as a matter of procedural law, governed by the law of the court seised with the issue. As a matter of...