Above The Law
JANUARY 29, 2025
It is unlikely they will expand into new practice areas such as immigration, family law, criminal defense, debt collection, and eviction matters. While it was designed to improve access to justice for low-income people with legal problems, it seems to have increased access to justice for car accident or tort victims.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
This tort law case was particularly notable for being granted leave despite no change in damages being requested by either the plaintiff or defendant. At its core, the legal question was how tort law should (or should not) address intimate partner violence (IPV), currently reaching crisis proportions in Canada.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 17, 2025
Part 1 – Illegal Gambling and “Volkswagen” I will start with the two areas that are mainly questions of Rome I and Rome II while in my follow-up post I will focus on the three areas that are not harmonized by EU law (yet) and are mainly questions of family law.
Day on Torts
DECEMBER 14, 2020
I speak about torts and comparative fault (2 hours general credit) and the law of jury selection (1 hour general credit). Recent Decisions (2020) – Procedure, Employment, Evidence, Family Law (Part 1). (1 Recent Decisions (2020) – Procedure, Employment, Evidence, Family Law (Part 2) and Legislation. (1
Conflict of Laws
JANUARY 25, 2024
The latest issue of the Dutch Journal on Private International Law (NIPR) has just been published NIPR 2023 issue 4 EDITORIAL I. Sumner, The next stops on the European international family law train / p. 569-571 Abstract The European legislature is not yet finished with the Europeanisation of private international family law.
Conflict of Laws
AUGUST 29, 2024
However, the authors of the book note that Indonesian law does not explicitly address the service of foreign proceedings within Indonesia, and they recommend that Indonesia accede to the 1965 Hague Service Convention to address this gap. However, Indonesian judges often apply lex fori (the law of the forum) to protect Indonesian citizens.
Day on Torts
DECEMBER 1, 2020
I speak about torts and comparative fault (2 hours general credit) and the law of jury selection (1 hour general credit). Recent Decisions (2020) – Procedure, Employment, Evidence, Family Law (Part 1). (1 Recent Decisions (2020) – Procedure, Employment, Evidence, Family Law (Part 2) and Legislation. (1
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