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Webb v Webb (PC) – the role of a foreign tax debt in the allocation of matrimonial property

By Maria Hook (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Jack Wass (Stout Street Chambers, New Zealand) When a couple divorce or separate, and the court is tasked with identifying what property is to be allocated between the parties, calculation of the net pool of assets usually takes into account certain debts. This includes matrimonial debts […]

Territorial Jurisdiction relating to Succession and Administration of Estates under Nigerian Private International Law

  Issues relating to succession and administration of estate of a deceased person raise significant issues in Nigerian private international law (or conflict of laws), whether a person dies testate or intestate. In the very recent case of Sarki v Sarki & Ors,

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One Small Step Forward: The Mainland China Is Trying to Differentiate Inter-regional Private Cases From Those Foreign-related Ones

For quite a long time, what China had been doing for its interregional private laws was modelling their solutions on international conventions such as the Hague Service Convention, the Hague Evidence Convention and the Hague Judgments Convention etc. Normally they eventually got a slimmed-down Arrangement for the corresponding matter. This was quite different from what […]

The International Dimension of Intellectual Property Disputes

Lex & Forum Law Review and Sakkoulas Publications SA are organizing an online conference on: The International Dimension of Intellectual Property Disputes PRESIDING: Prof. Lia Athanasiou, University of Athens PRESENTERS: • Prof. Dan Svantesson, Faculty of Law, Bond University/Australia, ‘Intellectual Property disputes and PIL: A Swedish and Australian perspective’ • Prof. Dr. Marketa Trimble, Samuel […]

FAMIMOVE (FAMIlies on the MOVE) – the website is now live!

FAMIMOVE is an international project co-funded by the European Commission under the JUST-2022-JCOO program. The FAMIMOVE website is now live and may be consulted by clicking