The Impact of Mutual Recognition and the Country of Origin Principle on the Internal Market
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Jurisdiction over Defences and Connected Claims
/in /by Martin GeorgeThere is a case note in the latest issue of the Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly (L.M.C.L.Q. 2006, 4(Nov), 447-452) by Adrian Briggs (Oxford University) on "Jurisdiction over Defences and Connected Claims", which: Criticises the interpretation by the European Court of Justice of the provisions of Council Regulation 44/2001 allowing similar cases to be heard together […]
A Farewell to Cross-Border Injunctions?
/in /by Martin GeorgeAnnette Kur (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law) has written an article in the latest issue of the
Norwegian Supreme Court on the Lugano Convention Art 5.1.
/in /by Martin GeorgeThe Norwegian Supreme Court has recently handed down a judgment on the Lugano Convention art 5.1. The judgment (Norsk Höyesterett (kjennelse)) is dated 2006-08-29 and was published in HR-2006-01492-U – Rt-2006-1008. The facts of the case were the following. Hüttlin GmbH and Pharma-Food AS entered into an agent agreement in May 1995, which attributed Pharma-Food […]
Council Meeting on Rome I: A Live Webcast
/in /by Martin GeorgeThe Council of the European Union (Justice and Home Affairs) will hold their 2768th meeting on Monday 4th – Tuesday 5th December 2006. Item 4 on the agenda is: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I) (debate on certain issues) (LA) (public […]
Finnish EU Presidency calls for Streamlining of Instruments in the Field of Civil Procedural Law
/1 Comment/in /by Martin GeorgeThe Finnish EU Presidency has
The New Rule on the Assignment of Rights in Rome I – the Solution to all our Proprietary Problems?
/in /by Martin GeorgeThere is an article in the new issue of the
The Further Consequences of a Choice of Law? Trafigura Beheer v Kookmin Bank
/1 Comment/in /by Martin GeorgeAdrian Briggs (Oxford University) has written a note on "The further consequences of a choice of law?" in the forthcoming issue of the Law Quarterly Review (L.Q.R. 2007, 123(Jan), 18-21). The note: Comments on the three Commercial Court decisions in Trafigura Beheer BV v Kookmin Bank Co on a dispute arising when a Korean company […]
State Immunity and Sovereign Debt Developments
/1 Comment/in /by Martin GeorgeThere is a short note by Katherine Reece Thomas in Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law (B.J.I.B. & F.L. 2006, 21(10), 432-434) on "State immunity and sovereign debt developments". Here's the abstract: Reviews case law on state immunity for sovereign debts, including: (1) Grovit v De Nederlandsche Bank on whether a state bank […]
Observations from the Intersection of Private International Law and Civil Procedure in the USA
/in /by Martin GeorgeRichard D. Freer (Emory University) has posted an article on SSRN entitled, “Pondering the Imponderable and Other Observations from the Intersection of Conflicts and Civil Procedure“. The abstract reads: In honor of the scholarship of Peter Hay, this essay explores some substantive areas of interest to scholars both of conflict of laws and civil procedure, […]