Question juridique clé
Whether the request for interim prohibition against payment under the bank guarantee should be granted
Solution extraite
No. The guarantee call met the contractual terms and there was no sufficiently manifest abuse of rights to justify blocking payment.
Motifs extraits
In an independent guarantee, the guarantor must pay once the contractual conditions are met. Abusive invocation is exceptional and must be manifest. The court accepted that the guarantee covered non-completion of the works, not only latent defects, so calling it after the contractor's collapse did not pursue an extraneous purpose.