16By order of 16 October 2001, the Judge sitting as Deputy High Court Judge in Sheffield (United Kingdom) held that it was clear from Case C-412/98 UGIC ν Group Josi [2000] ECR I-5925, paragraphs 59 to 61, that the application of the jurisdictional rules in the Brussels Convention to a dispute depended, in principle, on whether the defendant had its seat or domicile in a Contracting State, and that the Convention applied to a dispute between a defendant domiciled in a Contracting State and a claimant domiciled in a non-Contracting State. In those circumstances the decision of the Court of Appeal in In re Harrods (Buenos Aires) Ltd [1992] Ch 72, which accepted that it was possible for the English courts, applying the doctrine oí forum non conveniens, to decline to exercise the jurisdiction conferred on them by Article 2 of the Brussels Convention, was bad law.
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