Entries by Mukarrum Ahmed

United Kingdom Supreme Court confirms that consequential loss satisfies the tort gateway for service out of the jurisdiction

This post is written by Joshua Folkard, Barrister at Twenty Essex.   In FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Lady Brownlie [2021] UKSC 45 (“Brownlie II”), the Supreme Court held as a matter of ratio by a 4:1 majority that consequential loss satisfies the ‘tort gateway’ in Practice Direction (“PD”) 6B, para. 3.1(9)(a).   Background […]

Trade, Law and Development – Winter 2021, Vol. XIII, No. 2

Posted at the request of Aastha Asthana, Managing Editor, Trade Law and Development CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS General Issue Issue 13.2 | Winter ’21 The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development is pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Winter ’21 Issue of the Journal (Vol. 13, No. 2) in the form of […]

Trade, Law and Development: Call for Submissions

Posted at the request of Sahil Verma, Managing Editor, Trade, Law and Development Special Issue on Trade and Technology: Rebooting Global Trade for the Digital Millennium Issue 13.1 | Summer’21 Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law and Development has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in […]

A Dangerous Chimera: Anti-Suit Injunctions Based on a “Right to be Sued” at the Place of Domicile under the Brussels Ia Regulation?

This post introduces my case note titled ‘A Dangerous Chimera: Anti-Suit Injunctions Based on a “Right to be Sued” at the Place of Domicile under the Brussels Ia Regulation?’ which appeared in the July 2020 issue of the Law Quarterly Review at page 379. An open access version of the case note is available

Call for Submissions: Trade, Law and Development

Posted at the request of Sahil Verma, Managing Editor, Trade, Law and Development General Issue Issue 12.2 | Winter’20 The Board of Editors of Trade, Law and Development are pleased to invite original, unpublished manuscripts for publication in the Winter ’20 Issue of the Journal (Vol. 12, No. 2) in the form of ‘Articles’, ‘Notes’, ‘Comments’ and ‘Book […]

St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize 2020

Entries for the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize 2020 will close on 15 October 2019. The first prize of 10 million rubles will be awarded to the author of the best academic work (monograph or article) published in the field of private law, private international law or comparative law since 1 January […]