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Bahraini Supreme Court on the Enforceability of a Foreign Judgment Ordering the Payment of Contingent Fees

May 27, 2024/in Views/by Béligh Elbalti

I. Introduction Contingency fee agreements are arrangements whereby lawyers agree with their clients to receive a percentage of the final awarded amount in terms of payment of legal services. Such payment typically depends upon the lawyer winning the case or reaching a settlement. The admissibility of contingency fee agreements varies from one jurisdiction to another, […]

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: PIL and Litigation Aspects

May 20, 2024/in Views/by Xandra Kramer

Written by Eduardo Silva de Freitas (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University Rotterdam/Utrecht University), members of the Vici project Affordable Access to Justice, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), www.euciviljustice.eu. Introduction After extensive negotiations, on 24 April 2024, the European Parliament approved the

There and Back Again? – The unexpected journey of EU-UK Judicial Cooperation finally leads to The Hague

May 17, 2024/in Views/by Matthias Weller

by Achim Czubaiko, Research Fellow („Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter“) and PhD Candidate, supported by the German Scholarship Foundation, Institute for German and International Civil Procedural Law, University of Bonn. Today marks a significant step towards the reconstruction of EU-UK Judicial Cooperation. As neither House of Parliament has raised an objection by 17 May 2024,