The French Supreme Court for private and criminal matters (Cour de cassation) has delivered yesterday

  On March 1, 2011,  the ICCS Convention No. 29 on the recognition of decisions recording a sex reassignment, adopted by the Lisbon General Assembly on 16 September 1999, and signed at Vienna on September 12, 2000, will enter into force. Two States have so far ratified the Convention:  Spain in October 2010, and the Netherlands […]

We are grateful to Professor Burkhard Hess (Heidelberg) for the following remarks on the German preliminary reference in case C- 491/10 PPU (Andrea Aguirre Pelz): Mutual Recognition and Fundamental Rights Case C-491/10PPU – Andrea Aguirre Pelz An important preliminary reference has recently reached the ECJ’s dockets: In the case C-491/10PPU the Higher Regional Court of Celle referred […]

Many thanks to Isabel Rodríguez-Uría Suárez The 5th of October the Spanish Dirección General de los Registros y el Notariado (hereinafter DGRN) has issued an Instruction about the regulation of affiliation registration in cases of surrogate pregnancy in order to protect the best interests of the child and the interests of the women who give […]

On 15 October 2010, the European Commission will organise in Brussels a joint conference with the Council of the Notariats of the European Union on cross-border successions. The conference will be an opportunity to discuss different aspects of the Commission proposal for a Regulation on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and authentic […]