QFC 0020/2020, [2021] QIC (F) 7
Ahmed Mohammed Youssef Hassan v Arab Jordan Investment Bank (Qatar) LLC
This case involve whether the QFC court's had jurisdiction to make an order that a subisdiary of an international bank in the QFC jurisdiction provide evidence required for litigation in the Qatar courts. Costs were also considered.
Background
The claimant was the one time a business associate of a Mr Mustafa Mohammed Abdul Qader Al Omari but the relationship had broke down. The Claimant instituted proceedings in the national courts of Qatar against Mr Al Omari and an associated firm seeking payment of monies he claimed were due to him. That action was unsuccessful before the court of first instance but on appeal the Court of Appeal, on the request of the Claimant considered at a hearing on 30 October 2019, authorised the recovery of certain documentation for the purposes of that litigation. That documentation included a document or documents believed to be in the possession of this Defendant.
As a result the Registrar of the Court of Appeal wrote to the Defendant who replied on 1 December, stating among other things that certain accounts
were confidential.