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No handshake, no citizenship – but with a second wife, everything’s fine?
Two recent judgments of European courts have highlighted the difficulty in finding the right balance between the cultural assimilation of Muslim immigrants demanded by national laws on citizenship and the necessary degree of tolerance towards foreign laws and customs. In a widely reported
Child Abduction and Habitual Residence in the Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada, in Office of the Children’s Lawyer v Balev (available
The CJEU settles the issue of characterising the surviving spouse’s share of the estate in the context of the Succession Regulation
It has not been yet noted on this blog that the CJEU has recently settled a classic problem of characterisation that has plagued German courts and academics for decades (CJEU, 1 March 2018 – C-558/16, Mahnkopf, ECLI:EU:C:2018:138). The German statutory regime of matrimonial property is a community of accrued gains, i.e. that each spouse keeps […]
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With EU, Ukraine joining, the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention will enter into force on 1 September 2023
Just about a month ago,
Nigerian Bar Association Journal for 2022
The Nigerian Bar Association recently published articles on Nigerian law. Interestingly, the first two articles are on Nigerian conflict of laws. This should probably not come as a surprise because the editor-in-chief, Professor Uche Chukwumaeze, specialises in Nigerian conflict of laws. The articles and abstracts read as follows: O Uka, “Internal Conflict of Laws in […]
Third Issue of Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly for 2022
The third issue of the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly for 2022 was recently published. It features the following case notes and articles: A Briggs,