Legal Research is Easy

MAY 11, 2025

I've taught the "HOW" of online and in-print legal research for the better part of 3 decades (for the unwashed, that's 30 years). As it turns out, there is - but I didn't know that until later in my career as a law librarian. Judges, attorneys, pro se litigants - all use the terms interchangeably and they all sound like tourists.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Completing a degree would have given you a great foundation knowledge of academic law but in order to be a professional paralegal, you should learn about practice and procedure. These include the ‘Right of Audience’ which is the right to present your client’s case to the court, and the right to conduct litigation.

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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. Climate change and related human rights litigation is undoubtedly of increasing importance in private international law.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

Moreover, they propose that research must include consideration of culture, as well as measures to address the needs of self-represented litigants and the most vulnerable. Specifically, at a time when consumer relations represent the majority of mass legal relations, the demand for a system of speedy access to justice has become necessary.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ashley is a Sessional Instructor for the Paralegal Studies and Office Assistant Programs at McEwen University, and she has over 16 years of experience in the legal industry. Ashley’s dedication to supporting future legal professionals shines through her teaching and mentorship. This is what you’ve been looking for!

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

By Moses Wiepen, Legal Trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm, Germany In its decision of 21 July 2023 (V ZR 112/22), the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed that Art. In general, following the procedural law principle of actor sequitur forum rei , the Canadian trust should be brought to court in Canadian courts.

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DECEMBER 12, 2020

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. Against this background, the lawsuit before the Chinese court is more important in terms of legal analysis. Summary of Facts.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The pandemic causes serious disruption to litigation. In 2015, the Provisions of the SPC on Several Issues Concerning Registration and Filling of Cases provides the People’s courts should provide litigation services including online filing. [1] In China, mediation is part of the formal litigation procedure. Background.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Article 1 of the law, the FSIL aims to “to protect the lawful rights and interests of litigants, to safeguard the equality of state sovereignty, and to promote friendly exchanges with foreign countries.” Hong Kong and Macau are part of the People’s Republic of China, but they have separate legal systems.

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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. Such a provision on forum non conveniens caused four problems in practice.

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MAY 10, 2022

The SG asserted the non-legal maxim “two wrongs make a right” to effectively conclude that the Kessler expansion error was rendered harmless by compounding errors in the court’s claim preclusion doctrine. 4] A lot has happened in procedural law 1907.

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

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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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Gruber: A plea against ex post-adaptation of spousal inheritance rights Adaptation is recognized as a tool to eliminate the lack of coordination between the provisions of substantive law derived from different legal systems. 57 Austrian Code of Civil Procedure. Mandl: Apparent and virtual establishments reflected through Art.

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JULY 14, 2022

Zilin Hao, Anjie Law Firm, Beijing, China. In Chinese civil trial practice, there are two types of legal document to merits issued by courts that has the res judicata effect, namely Minshi Panjue Shu (“MPS”) (civil judgment) and Minshi Tiaojie Shu (“MTS”). Two commentors provide different views on this matter.

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JULY 9, 2021

Following that, the real question is whether and how anti-suit injunction is compatible with Chinese law. Some argued that Article 100 of the PRC CPL provides a legal basis for granting injunctions having similar effects with anti-suit injunction at common law. [2] The SPC’s injunction in Huawei v. ———-.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This solution will have a significant impact on French litigation in this area. Thyssen – Bornemisza Collection Foundation saga, illustrating the limitation of any conflict of laws methodology when confronted with objects that blur the boundaries between traditional legal categories. Finally, in the last article, Prof.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Written by NIE Yuxin and LIU Chang, Wuhan University Institute of International Law. The present Civil Procedure Law of China (hereinafter “CPL”) was enacted in 1990 and has been amended four times. All amendments made no substantive adjustments to the foreign-related civil procedure proceedings. Background. 284, para.

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MARCH 17, 2022

I’m teaching my usual Introduction to Intellectual Property course, together with an especially large Civil Procedure class (which at Iowa is 4 credit hours), and the Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center is running an exciting speaker series on Genetics, Law and Society.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

This is a significant turning point in the intersection of arbitration and cross-border litigation in India since the remedy of anti-enforcement injunction is rarely granted by judicial authorities across jurisdictions. The court arrived at this conclusion through a comprehensive analysis of three broad legal principles.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In cross-border proceedings, service of legal documents poses particular problems, which are addressed by the European Regulation on the Service of Documents. On applicable law for environmental pollution (Article 7 Rome II), a pinnacle of business and human rights as well as climate change litigation. found differently.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Conversely, Chapter One also acknowledges the book’s limitations, namely, that it only covers the express choice of law in international commercial contracts. Like other Asian and African countries, Indonesia experiences legal pluralism, due to its history of Dutch colonialism and a form of apartheid.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

By comparing these two options the author deals with the legal nature of the European account preservation order and with the subtleties of enforcement under the EAPOR. Roth: The „relevance (to the initial legal dispute)“ of the reference for a preliminary ruling pursuant to Article 267 TFEU. 7(2) Brussels I bis Regulation. 36 (1) No.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

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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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

It presents newly adopted legal instruments and summarises current projects that are making their way through the EU legislative process. It also refers to the laws enacted at the national level in Germany as a result of new European instruments. Such a court decision can be recognised in Germany under procedural law.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Domestic violence has drawn increasing attention both from the lawmaker and legal scholars. Legal means to prevent domestic violence and protect women have been promoted and implemented at the national and supranational levels. and International Law , 3rd ed., Finally, this issue features the following book review by Cristina M.

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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. Therefore, it deserves special attention.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Most students avoid it because of the adverse effect they think it is sure to have on their cumulative grade points average and the seeming lack of practical benefit of the subject to their future law practices. They do not know any better.

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JULY 2, 2024

25 Brussels Ibis Regulation and some questionable arguments that are derived from other legal instruments. Due to Brexit, the BGH, in its final decision of 8 December 2022 (IX ZB 72/19), had to apply German international insolvency law, which it interpreted differently from the EU Insolvency Regulation. 7(1)(b) Brussels Ia-Regulation.

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MAY 17, 2022

Hübner: Climate change litigation at the interface of private and public law – the foreign permit. The article deals with the interplay of private international law, substantive law, and public law in the realm of international environmental liability.

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JUNE 30, 2022

In an attempt to find common ground between different viewpoints, conciliatory and communicative skills of arbitrators play a decisive role, in particular in international commercial arbitrations on transnational litigation. He stated that there are three points of interaction between agreement and procedure. Second session.

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MAY 16, 2022

Despite the above, the Shanghai Maritime Court held that “when stipulating the principle of reciprocity, the Civil Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China does not limit it to that the relevant foreign court must first recognize the civil and commercial judgment of Chinese court.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

This report has been prepared by Priyanka Jain , a researcher at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law, and Ph.D. On 8-9 October 2020, ERA – the Academy of European Law – organized its Annual Conference on European Consumer Law 2020. Introduction: .

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APRIL 1, 2025

The conferences topic, characterisation, is the process for identifying the nature or category of a particular cause of action (for instance contractual, tortious, proprietary, corporate, matrimonial), so that the correct connecting factor can be employed which then points to the applicable law or to the competent court.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

After several years of litigation in both federal and state courts, Z. 443/2018, published in: Epitheorissi Politikis Dikonomias ( Civil Procedure Law Review ) 2017, 643 et seq, note Kastanidis ]. As mentioned above, the judgment has not been published in the legal press. The audit contemplated in the U.S.

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JANUARY 24, 2021

On December the 3 rd , 2020, the EU commission published a call for applications , with a view to putting forward, by late 2021, a (legislative or non-legislative) initiative to curtail “abusive litigation targeting journalists and civil society ”. Cheshire, North & Fawcett, Private International Law , 15 th ed., II, 15 th ed.,

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MAY 27, 2024

In practical terms, the application of the choice of law rule in Article 25(1) would have led to a similar outcome. However, the unnecessary displacement of the CJEU’s interpretative authorities on the matter would have increased litigation risk in multi-state transactions.

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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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