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Who can bite the Apple? The CJEU can shape the future of online damages and collective actions

Written by Eduardo Silva de Freitas (Erasmus University Rotterdam), member of the Vici project Affordable Access to Justice, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), www.euciviljustice.eu.     Introduction In the final weeks leading up to Christmas in 2023, the District Court of Amsterdam referred a set of questions to the CJEU (DC Amsterdam, 20 December 2023,

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Second Act in Dutch TikTok class action on privacy violation: court assesses Third Party Funding Agreements

Written by Eduardo Silva de Freitas (Erasmus University Rotterdam),  Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University Rotterdam/Utrecht University) & Jos Hoevenaars (Erasmus University Rotterdam), members of the Vici project Affordable Access to Justice, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), www.euciviljustice.eu.     Introduction Third Party Litigation Funding (TPLF) has been one of the key topics of discussion in European civil litigation […]

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Symposium on Reparation for “Crimes of the Past” in Strasbourg (Oct. 19–20)

Written by Dr. Delphine Porcheron, Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg Law Faculty On October 19 and 20, the University of Strasbourg is organizing a symposium on Reparation for “Crimes of the Past”. Mass crimes, deportations, spoliations, colonial exploitation, slavery… The “crimes of the past” are first known to us as historical facts. Their […]

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Applying Mexican Law in U.S. Courts? Mexico v Smith & Wesson

Dr. León Castellanos-Jankiewicz Researcher, International Law T.M.C. Asser Institute for International & European Law, The Hague Mexico’s ongoing transnational litigation against the firearms industry in U.S. courts is raising important questions of private international law, in particular as regards the application of Mexican tort law in U.S. courts. In its civil

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Anti-enforcement injunction granted by the New Zealand court

For litigants embroiled in cross-border litigation, the anti-suit injunction has become a staple in the conflict of laws arsenal of common law courts. Its purpose being to restrain a party from instituting or prosecuting proceedings in a foreign country, it is regularly granted to uphold arbitration or choice of court agreements, to stop vexatious or […]

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A Major Amendment to Provisions on Foreign-Related Civil Procedures Is Planned in China

Written by NIE Yuxin and LIU Chang, Wuhan University Institute of International Law Background The present Civil Procedure Law of China (hereinafter “CPL”) was enacted in 1990 and has been amended four times. All amendments made no substantive adjustments to the foreign-related civil procedure proceedings. In contrast with legislative indifference, foreign-related cases in the Chinese […]