SDL International Ltd v Centre de Co-operation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le     This was an appeal by the claimant from the decision of a master ordering a stay of the proceedings commenced by the claimant, an English company ('SDL'), against the defendant French corporation ('CIRAD'), on the basis that the French court was the court first seised of proceedings between the same parties involving the same cause of action under art. 21 of the Brussels Convention.