The moving parties sought to quash the responding party's appeal of an order validating service of an application record.
The responding party, a foreign state, argued the order was final because it determined substantive rights regarding state sovereignty and the Hague Convention.
The Court of Appeal held that the order validating service was procedural and interlocutory, as it did not finally dispose of the dispute or deprive the responding party of substantive defences.
The motion was granted and the appeal was quashed.
