HC vacates the stay on the case against Swamy

The Madras High Court has cleared the way for Advantage Strategic Consulting, a private firm, to proceed with a defamation suit against former Union Law Minister Subramanian Swamy in the High Court of Singapore. The court has set aside an injunction granted against the firm in 2014, citing lack of jurisdiction as the reason behind the current order. The division bench of Justices SS Sundar and PB Balaji has stated, “In view of our above findings on all the issues, we are of the view that there is no prima facie case in favour of the 1st respondent/plaintiff (Swamy) to grant any interim order as this Court has no jurisdiction to grant anti suit injunction restraining a foreign company from prosecuting the defamation suit in a foreign country. We find balance of convenience in favour of the appellant/2nd defendant (Advantage Strategic)”.