Conflict of Laws

MAY 27, 2025

Until recently, the procedure for international service in India was unclear. This ambiguity was addressed by the Kerala High Court in Charuvila Philippose v. Letters Rogatory and Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) Route Traditionally, Indian courts have relied on letters rogatory for service abroad. Sivadasan. [1]

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 1, 2024

By Ananya Bhargava, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, India. Recently, the Delhi High Court in the case of Honasa Consumer Limited v RSM General Trading LLC granted an anti-enforcement injunction against the execution proceedings instituted in the Dubai Court on the ground that it threatened the arbitral process in India.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Kostin, Senior Research Fellow at the Private Law Research Centre (Moscow, Russia) and counsel atAvangard law firm. and Valeria Rzyanina, junior associate, Avangard Law Firm. This is a synopsis of an article published in the Herald of Civil Procedure Law Journal N 1/2021 in Russian). 40-39791 / 2018.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Broadly speaking, indirect jurisdiction refers to the jurisdiction of the foreign court in the context of recognizing and enforcing foreign judgments. Concretely, the court being asked to recognize and enforce a foreign judgment evaluates whether the foreign court had proper jurisdiction to hear the dispute. I (2017) 151.)

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 27, 2024

According to the doctrine of privity of contract, only parties to a choice of court agreement are subject to the rights and obligations arising from it. A choice of court agreement in a bill of lading which is agreed by the carrier and shipper and transferred to a consignee, or third-party holder is a ubiquitous example.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2020

By Zhengxin Huo, Professor of Law, China University of Polit’l Science and Law; Associate Member of International Academy of Comparative Law; Observer of the UNESCO 1970 Convention. Against this background, the lawsuit before the Chinese court is more important in terms of legal analysis. Email: zhengxinh@cupl.edu.cn.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Mr Ting Liao, PhD candidate at the Wuhan University Institute of International Law, published a note on the Chinese Smart Court , which attracted a lot of interest and attention. We have responded a few enquires and comments, some relating to the procedure and feasibility of virtual/remote hearing.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 27, 2022

In the XX century, dispute resolution was characterized by the leading role played by State courts: however, this situation has begun to change. remains the benchmark practice for the development of a model based on the three principles of self-government, government by law, and government by virtue. Cristina M.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 16, 2024

However, as I have learned more about the procedural history preceding the decisions of the Dubai Supreme Court (“DSC”), which was not available to me when I posted my previous comment, greater emphasis will be placed on the general factual background of the case. First Appeal: DSC, Appeal No. Second Appeal: DSC, Appeal No.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Carlos Santaló Goris , Researcher at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law and Ph.D. On 22 January 2021, the Czech Chamber of Deputies approved “ the government act amending Act No. The first legislative implementation of the EAPO Regulation in the Czech national law.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 10, 2021

. & Wenliang Zhang (Associate Professor, Renmin University of China Law School). and foreign court to have considered the adequacy of the Chinese judicial system in the context of judgments recognition. The agreement was governed by Chinese law and provided that suits could be resolved by courts in Beijing.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 29, 2021

I allow myself to pick up a few elements from this fascinating interview in the following for our international audience: The Tenth Panel functions as a court of first appeal ( Berufungsgericht ) in patent nullity proceedings and as a court of second appeal for legal review only ( Revisionsgericht ) in patent infringement proceedings.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 16, 2024

(Cornell), Bachelor of Laws (ZUEL). * The doctrine of forum non conveniens is an important principle in civil procedure laws and frequently applied by courts in many legal systems, especially those of common law countries. For instance, in Jiahua International Limited, Ruixiang Limited v.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 1, 2025

The news about the Supreme Peoples Court of the Peoples Republic of China issuing the Notice on Procedural Matters Related to Civil Cases Involving Foreign State Immunit y has been previously reported on this blog. Her post was originally published on the Supreme Peoples Court Monitor.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

According to a widespread view, adaption is very often necessary with regard to the spouse’s share in the deceased’s estate, namely if the matrimonial property regime and questions relating to succession are governed by different laws. 57 Austrian Code of Civil Procedure. 5 Brussels Ia Regulation and Art.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Article 19 provides in its first paragraph that Chinese courts “shall accept” documents issued by the MFA on certain factual questions. The second paragraph of Article 19 empowers the MFA to issue opinions to Chinese courts on other issues “that concern foreign affairs and other such major state interests.”

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

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. Introduction.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 4, 2022

LIN Jidong, Wuhan University Institute of International Law. Regulation 2022 generally authorises all the grass-roots courts to hear foreign-related disputes (Art. 1) and limits the jurisdiction of intermediate and higher courts (Art. Nowadays, most intermediate courts have the jurisdiction to hear foreign-related disputes.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The recognition and enforcement of French civil and commercial judgments in China is generally regulated by Articles 281 and 282 of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Civil Procedure Law as amended in 2017 (hereinafter “ PRC CPL ”). Major Provisions under the France-China Agreement.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 29, 2021

I allow myself to pick up a few elements from this fascinating interview in the following for our international audience: The Tenth Panel functions as a court of first appeal ( Berufungsgericht ) in patent nullity proceedings and as a court of second appeal for legal review only ( Revisionsgericht ) in patent infringement proceedings.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The rules on applicable law for environmental damage, contained in the Rome II Regulation on the law that applies to non-contractual obligations, are a clear and considered exception. Courts are struggling with the right approach to the relevant rules.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The authors discuss both important decisions and pending cases before the CJEU as well as important decisions from German courts pertaining to the subject matter of the article. In addition, the article also looks at current projects and the latest developments at the Hague Conference of Private International Law.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 3, 2025

While the parties had chosen Dutch law to be applicable to the contract, the court held that the German provision was applicable in view of Art. 3 of the Rome I Regulation, which stipulates the application of mandatory provisions of the state in which the facts of the case are exclusively located if the law of another state is chosen.

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JULY 5, 2021

Remien : The European Succession Regulation and the many questions of the European court practice – five years after entry into force. but especially national court practice shows many interesting cases of the necessary overall assessment. The decision also deals with questions of German procedural law. According to Art.

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LettersBlogatory

OCTOBER 2, 2021

More recently, my view that Donziger was pretty obviously guilty of contempt of court, and that Judge Preska was right not to allow him to put on evidence at his trial showing that Judge Kaplan had been biased and had gotten his findings of fact all wrong about what had happened in Ecuador, has not endeared me to Donziger and his partisans.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 31, 2021

Recent Decisions of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht and their Impact on Private International Law (in English). Any act taken in violation of these limits may be declared void by the Constitutional Court. Both the “Lisbon” judgment and the UPC ruling have implications for European private international law.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The preliminary ruling procedure under Article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) exists to ensure the uniform interpretation and application of EU law. One such condition is that the question referred to the court must be applicable to the decision in the initial legal dispute.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2023

The monograph predominantly examines 19 Indonesian court decisions on choice of law in international commercial contracts during the period, 2000-2020. As the reader, one thing I found striking about Indonesian practice is that a choice of foreign law alone can oust the jurisdiction of the Indonesian courts.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Nigerian legal practitioners have had to provide legal advice and represent clients before trial and appellate courts as well as arbitral tribunals on disputes involving private international law questions within the context of Nigerian law.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

One is the jurisdictional challenge of finding a competent court in the same jurisdiction as the individual users. [3] This constellation provides a strong argument for facilitating collective redress, as otherwise individual users may not be able to obtain justice for privacy infringements before the courts.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

After all, mandatory application in EU courts is largely irrelevant if courts do not have jurisdiction in the first place. If the remaining alternative is to bring an action in a court outside the EU, the application of the CSDDD civil liability regime is not, however, guaranteed. Common to Arts. 22 (5) CSDDD.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 17, 2023

This contribution maps the meaning and nature of those articles, their application in early case-law across Member States, and their impact among others on business and human rights litigation, pre and post Brexit. Indonesian civil procedure law recognises choice of court agreements made by contracting parties.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Less dealt with is the issue of selecting an appropriate ground for jurisdiction, which is not governed by the mentioned Regulation. This article provides an analysis of whether and to what extent these two needs can be satisfied with the combined application of the EU family law regulations at issue. and International Law , 3rd ed.,

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 20, 2024

In this context, as explained by Michaels and Sommerfeld , while the CSDDD applies to certain non-EU firms based on their turnover in the EU (Article 2(2)), jurisdictional issues persist for actions against non-EU defendants in EU courts, with jurisdiction typically governed by national provisions.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2021

“Mainland China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Macao SAR and Taiwan not only all have their own systems of substantive civil, commercial and procedural law, they also have their own rules of private international law or conflict of laws.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Maxian Rusche : Available actions in the German courts against the abuse of intra-EU investor-State arbitration proceedings. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in Achmea that intra-EU investment arbitration violates fundamental rules of EU law. The court held that the enforcement provision Article V (1) lit.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 27, 2023

These include the bank accounts of diplomatic missions, property of a military character, central bank assets, property that is part of the state’s cultural heritage, property of scientific, cultural, or historical value used for exhibition, and any other property that a Chinese court thinks should not be regarded as being in commercial use.

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