Civil Law Court Punitive Damages 
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 23, 2024
by Salih Okur (University of Augsburg) On 8 and 9 March, scholars from more than a dozen different jurisdictions followed the invitation of Tobias Lutzi to discuss recent trends in punitive damages at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The conference contained five panels overall, which were split into three blocks.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis Thursday ruled that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay $473 million in punitive damages on top of a nearly $1 billion verdict handed down last month, for his defamatory statements about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. million in damages to other Sandy Hook parents.
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Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 7, 2024
Articles 1, 2, and 4 are provisions that positively state the scope of recognition and enforcement of civil and commercial judgments in the two regions; Articles 3, 5, 12, and 13 are provisions that clearly recognize and enforce the scope of civil and commercial judgments of the courts of the two regions.
InHouseOps
JUNE 13, 2022
First, you are looking at a neutral forum and you may be hoping to avoid the local courts where the other side is located and unfamiliar legal systems and practice. You want to have an exit strategy that provides for arbitration where no party has a home court advantage thereby having the dispute placed in neutral forum.
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 30, 2022
Key takeaways: Despite the fact that the elaboration of a judicial interpretation appears to have been put on hold, China’s Supreme People’s Court has now resorted to conference summaries, which are not legally binding but have a practical impact, to express its views in recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Once again , the Hague Academy of International Law brought distinguished speakers to the fragrant harbour to deliver lectures on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters . Surprisingly, this reasoning according to the Explanatory Report does not apply to punitive damages exception in Art.
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