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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. The judgment of the Italian Supreme Court can be read here (in Italian).

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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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First Thai Monetary Judgment Enforced in China, Highlighting Presumptive Reciprocity in China-ASEAN Region

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On 18 June 2024, the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area Nanning International Commercial Tribunal under the Nanning Railway Transportation Intermediate Court, Guangxi (hereafter the “Nanning Court”), ruled to recognize and enforce a Thai monetary judgment.

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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. As mentioned above, the judgment has not been published in the legal press.

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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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Both the first instance court and the court in appeal found that the claims were sufficiently connected, despite the contentions of Shell. in the 2015 ruling). In the meantime, the substantive law aspects of the procedure, including the question which sanctions can be imposed, are governed by the lex causae (Nigerian law).

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China Adopts Restrictive Theory of Foreign State Immunity

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Article 5 provides that a foreign state is deemed to consent if it files suit as a plaintiff, participates as a defendant and files “an answer or a counterclaim on the merits of the case,” or participates as a third party in Chinese courts. This change brings the FSIL into greater alignment with Articles 19-21 of the U.N.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 6/2022: Abstracts

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In the meantime, the regulation has become one of the most important legal instruments for judicial cooperation in civil matters. The following article presents the German implementing rules for this recast. The following article presents the German implementing rules for this recast. A look at Art. A look at Art.