Entries by Gilles Cuniberti

French Court Rules Foreign Freezing Orders have Res Judicata

In a judgment of March 8th, 2011, the French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) confirmed that a Greek order refusing to authorize the pre-award attachment of a ship in Athens was to be recognized in France. As a consequence, the French court could not try again the dispute and authorize to […]

NY Court Grants Pre-Award Attachment in Aid of Foreign Arbitration

In Sojitz Corp. v. Prithvi Information Solutions Ltd, the New York Supreme Court (ie an intermediate appellate court) recently agreed to grant a pre-award attachment in aid of an arbitration with a foreign seat (Singapore) and between two foreign parties over which NY courts did not have personal jurisdiction. In 1982, the New York Court of Appeals (ie the supreme court in the […]

Kessedjian on the Brussels I Review

Catherine Kessedjian (Paris II University) will publish a comment (in French) on the Brussels I review proposal in the next issue of the Revue trimestrielle de droit européen. It is already available