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Eurostar is not a public body and therefore not obliged to comply with the Public Contract and Utilities Regulations, the High Court ruled today.

The pivotal decision relates to the ongoing litigation brought by Alstom Transport against Eurostar after it granted Siemens the contract for building a new fleet of trains in anticipation of the Channel Tunnel being opened up to its competitors.

The decision prompted Alstom to instruct Hogan Lovells partners Ciara Kennedy-Loest and Rupert Sydenham to pursue the transport body for, it alleged, being in breach of EU regulations on procurement .

This latest judgment in the ongoing legal battle will be considered a major win for Eurostar, which was represented by Monckton Chambers’ Michael Bowsher QC, whp was instructed by Burges Salmon partner Chris Jackson.

Handing down judgment today, Mr Justice Roth said: “It seems clear that LCR [London and Continental Railways]  and SNCF [Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français] have been at all material times bodies governed by public law since they are wholly owned by respectively, the British and French governments.”

It will be a blow to the claimant, which instructed Keating Chambers’ Sarah Hannaford QC, as the case can only now proceed on a secondary claim brought by Alstom over Eurostar’s ’tender contract’ argument.

In June last year Mr Justice Mann upheld a strike out action brought by Eurostar against an injunctive relief application made by Siemans to prevent the contract from going ahead.

ST Engineering today announced that the Group has secured new contracts for the Electronics and Marine sectors worth about $350m in 4Q2011.  These wins include a LRT communications contract in Taiwan, and several naval contracts and commercial shiprepair and conversion contracts.

ST Electronics won a contract from a consortium comprising Alstom Transport S.A. and CTCI Corporation (Alstom/CTCI) to provide a communications system for the Taichung City LRT CJ900/CJ907 Wuri-Wenxin Beitun Line (Green Line).  The state-of-the-art communications system, which ST Electronics will design, supply, install and commission, will facilitate an efficient, reliable and safe mode of transportation for commuters in Taichung city.  Work on the 16.5km, 18 above ground stations project will start in the first quarter of 2012 and is expected to be completed by 2017.  Taichung is the third city in Taiwan, in addition to Taipei and Kaohsiung in which ST Electronics has secured MRT communication contracts.

ST Electronics and ST Marine were awarded a contract to carry out upgrading works on the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN)’s Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs).  The LSTs were designed and built by ST Marine, and were delivered to the RSN in 1999.  The upgrading works will cover modifications to the platform, as well as upgrades to the combat systems and helicopter support facilities.

In shiprepair and conversion, ST Marine won a contract from Saipem (Portugal) Comercio Maritimo (Saipem) to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system and accommodation piping system for pipe-laying vessel, Castoro 8.  It will undertake the design development, engineering and supply of a new chilled water HVAC system.  These upgrading will ensure that the vessel meets Saudi Arabia’s requirements and complies with Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) regulations for Noise, Vibration, Air Exchange, Flow Rate and Temperature.  Delivery of the vessel is expected to be in the second quarter of 2012.

These contracts are not expected to have any material impact on the consolidated net tangible assets per share and earnings per share of ST Engineering for the current financial year.

ST Engineering (Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd) is an integrated engineering group providing solutions and services in the aerospace, electronics, land systems and marine sectors.  Headquartered in Singapore, the Group reported revenues of $5.98b in FY2010 and ranks among the largest companies listed on the Singapore Exchange.  It is a component stock of the FTSE Straits Times Index, FTSE ASEAN 40 Index, MSCI Singapore and other indices.  ST Engineering has more than 22,000 employees worldwide, and over 100 subsidiaries and associated companies in 23 countries and 41 cities.