MPI Comments on the Green Paper on the Attachment of Bank Accounts
The Max Planck Working Group has – besides the comments on Rome I (see our
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Comments on Rome I
/1 Comment/in /by Veronika GaertnerThe latest volume of the German legal journal Rabels Zeitschrift (Vo. 71, No. 2, April 2007) contains “Comments on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on the law applicable to contractual oblitations (Rome I)” (in English) elaborated by the Working Group on Rome I of the
German Publication on Rome I
/in /by Veronika GaertnerA very interesting collection of papers held at a symposium in Bayreuth in September 2006 on the Proposal for a Regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations (“
ECJ Judgment on Art. 5 (1) (b) Brussels I Regulation – “Color Drack”
/in /by Veronika GaertnerToday, the European Court of Justice pronounced its judgment in Case
Accession of the European Community to the Hague Conference on Private International Law
/in /by Veronika GaertnerSince yesterday, 3 April 2007, the European Community is a formal member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The accession of the European Community, which comes in addition to the individual membership of all 27 EU Member States, has been facilitated by amendments to the Statute of the Hague Conference entered into force […]
Request for a Preliminary Ruling on the Service Regulation
/in /by Veronika GaertnerThe German Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court) has referred the following questions to the ECJ for a preliminary ruling: Must Article 8(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1348/2000 of 29 May 2000 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (‘the Regulation’) be interpreted as meaning that […]
Germany: New Central Authority For International Child Abduction and Adoption Cases
/in /by Veronika GaertnerSince 1 Januar 2007, Germany has a new authority dealing with questions of international legal relations and international legal assistance which had fallen before in the competence of the Federal Public Prosecutor (Generalbundesanwalt) – the Bundesamt für Justiz. Thus, the Bundesamt für Justiz is now inter alia the competent authority according to: the 1980 Hague […]
German Courts: Non-Applicability of Art.5 (2) Lugano Convention in Favour of a Public Authority
/in /by Veronika GaertnerAccording to the Oberlandesgericht (Higher Regional Court) Dresden, Art.5 (2) Lugano Convention is not applicable in favour of a claimant governed by public law subrogated to the rights of the maintenance creditor. In the present case, a public authority had paid an education grant to the daughter of the defendant who was legally obliged to […]
ECJ: AG Opinion on Article 5 (1) (b) Brussels I Regulation
/in /by Veronika GaertnerOn February 15th, Advocate General Bot delivered his Opinion in Case
ECJ: Legal Actions for Compensation for Acts perpetrated by Armed Forces in the Course of Warfare are no “Civil Matters” in Terms of the Brussels Convention
/in /by Veronika GaertnerToday, the European Court of Justice has delivered the judgment in case