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Brexit & Lugano

February 5, 2020/in Views, News/by Thalia Kruger

Written by Jonathan Fitchen The UK’s intention to attempt to accede to the 2007 Lugano Convention is apparently proceeding apace. Though the events leading up to Friday 31st January, when the UK left the EU, rather overshadowed this fact, the UK Government had already announced that its intention to accede by a posting on 28th […]

Brexit: No need to stop all the clocks.

January 31, 2020/in Views, News/by Thalia Kruger

Written by Jonathan Fitchen. ‘The time has come’; a common enough phrase which may, depending on the reader’s mood and temperament, be attributed variously to Lewis Carroll’s discursive Walrus, to Richard Wagner’s villainous Klingsor, or to the conclusion of Victor Hugo’s epigrammatic comment to the effect that nothing is as powerful as an idea whose […]

Private International Law and Venezuelan Academia in 2019: A Review

January 29, 2020/1 Comment/in Views/by Matthias Weller

by José Antonio Briceño Laborí, Professor of Private International Law, Universidad Central de Venezuela y Universidad Católica Andrés Bello In 2019 the Venezuelan Private International Law (hereinafter “PIL”) academic community made clear that, despite all the difficulties, it remains active and has the energy to expand its activities and undertake new challenges. As an example […]

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Today begins the first meeting of the Special Commission to review the practical operation of the HCCH 2000 Protection of Adults Convention

November 9, 2022/in News/by Mayela Celis

The first meeting of the Special Commission to review the practical operation of the HCCH 2000 Protection of Adults Convention will be held today in The Hague and will last until 11 November 2022. This event is remarkable given that this is the first time that the practical operation of this Convention is assessed since […]

Enforcing Foreign Judgments in China and Chinese Judgments Abroad: Recent Developments and Remaining Challenges

November 8, 2022/in News/by Jeanne Huang

Event date: 17 November 2022 Event time: 12:00 – 13:30 Oxford week: MT 6 Audience: Members of the University Venue: St Catherine’s College (Room: TBA) Speaker(s): Dr Jeanne Huang (Associate Professor, The University of Sydney) On January 24, 2022, the Supreme People’s Court of China issued the Minutes of the National Court’s Symposium on Foreign-Related Commercial and Maritime Trials […]