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Review of Afifah Kusumadara, Indonesian Private International Law, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021, 288 pp, hb $140

Conflict of Laws

After reading and reviewing a thought-provoking book on the choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia last year, I decided to delve further into the subject by picking up a book on Indonesian private international law. Pereira (Supreme Court decision 376 K/Pdt. Luis F.S.S. 97, 111-112).

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Bahraini High Court on Choice of Court and Choice of Law Agreements

Conflict of Laws

Choice-of-court agreements conferring jurisdiction on foreign courts are often disregarded or declared null and void. The recent judgment of the High Court of Bahrain (a first instance court in the Bahraini judicial system ) in the Case No. Pursuant to Article 4 of Law No.

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Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?

Paralegal Bootcamp

Legal research skills Legal research skills are essential for finding and analyzing laws, regulations, and court decisions pertinent to the case you’re working on. Criminal law, family law, corporate law – each comes with unique demands and rewards.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 5/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Prior to the Rome Regulations, the conflict-of-law judgments on those “contracts with protective effect in favour of third parties” differed between German and Austrian courts. It points out that the Regulation Rome I covers only obligations that would not exist without the contract.

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Dubai Supreme Court Admits Reciprocity with the UK and Enforces an English Judgment

Conflict of Laws

2) The foreign judgment is contrary to public policy because it violates Islamic Sharia law, individual property rights and the distribution of property under UAE law. 3) The parties have not (yet) been divorced under Pakistani law or Islamic Sharia. Ruling: In its ruling dated 25 January 2024 ( Appeal No. 37 (2023), pp.

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Report of the Oxford Conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws”

Conflict of Laws

They began with an overview of the instances where the choice of law questions are raised at the jurisdictional stage in the context of granting permission for service out of the jurisdiction, exploring the relevant gateways in the Practice Direction 6B of the Civil Procedure Rules.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Schlosser: Jurisdiction Agreements and other Agreements integrally Covered by European Law. Certain contracts are particularly close to the law of the European Union. That law is particularly concerned about its effectiveness, if needed by a creative approach.