Forum Non Conveniens

Forum non conveniens is a doctrine of civil procedure allowing a court that otherwise has jurisdiction over a case to decline to hear it, or to dismiss it, on the ground that another court or forum is significantly better suited to try the dispute, typically because the parties, witnesses and evidence have little genuine connection to the forum where the case was filed. The doctrine originated in eighteenth-century Scots law, with the 1610 case Vernor v Elvies an early precursor, before being absorbed into English common law and, from there, into the law of the United States and other common law jurisdictions. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/