“…y so in the case of negative declarations. The judge referred to the summary by Mrs Justice Cockerill in BNP Paribas SA v Trattamento Rifiuti Metropolitani SpA [2020] EWHC 2436 (Comm) at [78], including that in general a declaration will not be granted on a purely hypothetical question where there is no real and present dispute between the p…”
“…Reference was also made to the points collected by Mrs Justice Cockerill in BNP Paribas SA v Trattamento Rifiuti Metropolitani SpA [2020] EWHC 2436 (Comm) at [78], emphasising the importance of utility:…”