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Injunctions against encashment of demand guarantees:  To look; or not to look at the underlying contract?

Injunctions against encashment of demand guarantees: To look; or not to look at the underlying contract?

February 8, 2022

Authored by: Uditha Egalahewa, President’s Counsel, and N.K.Ashokbharan, Attorney-at-Law. This Article endeavours a brief comparative analysis of the law in Sri Lanka, the UK, India, and Singapore pertaining to whether a court can look into the underlying contract where injunction is sought against the encashment of a bank guarantee, and argues that in the question of […]