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Ducking the Ricochet: The Supreme Court of Canada on Foreign Judgments
Written by Stephen G.A. Pitel, Western University The court’s decision in HMB Holdings Ltd v Antigua and Barbuda, 2021 SCC 44 (
Indonesia deposits its instrument of accession to the HCCH 1961 Apostille Convention
Guest post by Priskila P. Penasthika, Ph.D. Researcher at Erasmus School of Law – Rotterdam and Lecturer in Private International Law at Universitas Indonesia. Indonesian Accession to the HCCH 1961 Apostille Convention After almost a decade of discussions, negotiations, and preparations, Indonesia has finally acceded to the
United Kingdom Supreme Court confirms that consequential loss satisfies the tort gateway for service out of the jurisdiction
This post is written by Joshua Folkard, Barrister at Twenty Essex. In FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Lady Brownlie [2021] UKSC 45 (“Brownlie II”), the Supreme Court held as a matter of ratio by a 4:1 majority that consequential loss satisfies the ‘tort gateway’ in Practice Direction (“PD”) 6B, para. 3.1(9)(a). Background […]
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Out Now: Private International Law and Competition Litigation in a Global Context, by Mihail Danov
Description This important book systematically analyses the private international law issues regarding private antitrust damages claims which arise out of transnational competition law infringements. It identifies those problems that need to be considered by injured parties, defendants, judges and policy-makers when dealing with cross-border private antitrust damages claims in a global context. It considers […]
Symposium for Trevor Hartley at LSE on 27 October 2023
Written by Ugljesa Grusic, Associate Professor at University College London, Faculty of Laws