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Litigating Enforcement: Germany’s Contested Climate Governance and the New Wave of Climate Litigation

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Climate litigation in Germany has achieved another major victory. On November 30, 2023, the Higher Administrative Court Berlin-Brandenburg ruled in DUH and BUND v. Against this backdrop, the decision of the Higher Administrative Court must also be understood as part of a new wave of climate litigation.

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Silence Is Not Submission: Chinese Court Refuses to Enforce U.S. Default Judgment Rendered in Breach of Arbitration Agreement

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This decision underscored the court’s reliance on the arbitration agreement’s validity, even though a subsequent legislative proposal to include arbitration agreements as an indirect jurisdictional filter in China’s Civil Procedure Law (2023 Amendment) was ultimately not adopted. 5 of China’s Arbitration Law and Art.

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Italian Supreme Court rules on recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment even if preceded by a worldwide freezing injunction

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Written by Marco Farina, Italian lawyer, PhD in Civil Procedural Law at the University La Sapienza of Rome – Adjunct Professor of Civil Procedural Law at the University LUISS of Rome. This is not an alteration of the procedural equality of the parties.

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Shell litigation in the Dutch courts – milestones for private international law and the fight against climate change

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As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Oil spill in Nigeria and litigation in The Hague courts. in the 2015 ruling). Introduction.

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The Chinese villages win a lawsuit in China to repatriate a Mummified Buddha Statue hold by a Dutch Collector —What Role has Private International Law Played?

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This note focuses on the major legal issues that the Chinese judgment dealt with and attempts to analyse the role of private international law that has played. 4] It simply determined not to hear the case, based on its finding that the two village committees did not have standing to sue in the Dutch court. [5]. Summary of Facts.

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Conflict of Laws - Untitled Article

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The EU Parliament has thereby backed the compromise text reached by its legal affairs committee on 25 April 2023. 22 CSDDD is their mandatory nature for the purpose of private international law, which established by the ECJ for the former and is legally prescribed for the latter in Art. Common to Arts. 22 (5) CSDDD.

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Excess of authority as a ground of refusal for an AAA award in Greece

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First and second instance courts decided in favour of Z. the Supreme Court ruled that the Athens Court of Appeal failed to examine two grounds of appeal raised by M. The case was sent back to the appellate court [Supreme Court nr. After several years of litigation in both federal and state courts, Z.

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