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

Conflict of Laws

The authors note that the Indonesian government advocates for the doctrine of absolute immunity to protect the state’s interests in foreign courts. The chapter further discusses the law applicable to specific torts, including negligence, nuisance, wrongful interference with goods, defamation, and environmental damage and pollution.

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Finding of conversion and fraudulent concealment affirmed where brother signed sister’s name on check

Day on Torts

When defendant and his wife were later divorcing in 2019, the annuity came to light, and the wife informed plaintiff that she had seen a check that appeared to have been endorsed by someone else on her behalf. Based on the evidence, the Court affirmed the ruling that plaintiff “possessed a one-half ownership interest in the annuity funds.”.

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RabelsZ: New issue alert (1/2023)

Conflict of Laws

In the meantime, life goes on: children are born, couples marry and divorce, parental child abductions take place, etc. The 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention, which requires that the personal status of refugees be governed by the law of domicile or residence, does not provide an answer to all difficulties. Under art.

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First Issue of Journal of Private International Law for 2022

Conflict of Laws

F Rielaender, “Financial torts and EU private international law: will the search for the place of “financial damage” ever come to an end?” The post-Brexit private international law regime and its implications for the viability of tort claims against parent companies are examined.

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25th Volume of the Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law (2023)

Conflict of Laws

In particular, it examines the recognition of ancillary judgments in divorce cases, concluding that they fall under article 118 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The decision is the first to recognize a corporate duty to mitigate climate change under tort law.

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Opioid maker Purdue’s bankruptcy case comes before Supreme Court

SCOTUSBlog

At the same time, the dispute also raises broader questions about whether and when it is appropriate to resolve mass tort cases – that is, lawsuits brought by a group of people who have been harmed in a similar way, such as in a plane crash or by a defective product – through the bankruptcy system. The first is whether Harrington, as the U.S.

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5th German Conference for Young Researchers in Private International Law in Heidelberg – Conference Report

Conflict of Laws

He proposed to assess the legality of content under the law designated by the conflicts rule for torts invokable by the victim, either as applicable law or as law to be taken into consideration at the level of substantive law. Hence, a monetary unit is governed by the sovereign that issued the unit. 3(h) DSA and Art.14(4)

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