The courts have a general discretion to stayproceedings.
英国法院有中止诉讼的普遍自由裁量权。
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Kissel recently spoke of her intention to ask for a permanent stay in the proceedings, claiming the publicity about the case would make a retrial unfair.
However, where the foreign proceedings are in an appropriate forum and are well under way, the English court will stay its proceedings in the interests of justice.