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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

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Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Michael Smith brought tort claims against New Zealand’s seven largest GHG emitters, which are collectively responsible for one-third of all New Zealand GHG emissions. As this open-ended definition suggests, public nuisance is a slippery tort.

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United Kingdom Supreme Court confirms that consequential loss satisfies the tort gateway for service out of the jurisdiction

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In FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Lady Brownlie [2021] UKSC 45 (“ Brownlie II ”), the Supreme Court held as a matter of ratio by a 4:1 majority that consequential loss satisfies the ‘tort gateway’ in Practice Direction (“ PD ”) 6B, para. Three main reasons were given. Economic torts? Background. PD 6B, para.

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Anti-Suit Injunctions and Dispute Resolution Clauses

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It alleged that the directors were actively involved in the chairmans unlawful conduct and therefore liable in tort under Korean law, and GGS was vicariously liable for their actions. This is significant because the tort action in Indonesia was not based on the contract between the parties. [24]

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Trending Topics in German PIL 2024 (Part 1 – Illegal Gambling and “Volkswagen”)

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The way over unjust enrichment resulting from a invalid contract has the charming effect that you do not have to apply Rome IIs general tort rule (Article 4 para. This is not a resumen of the original article as it contains a very detailed analysis of sometimes very specific questions of German PIL. 826 BGB ).

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Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) No 4/2023: Abstracts

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Edoardo Benvenuti , Research Fellow at the University of Milan, Climate change litigation e diritto internazionale privato dell’Unione europea: quale spazio per la tutela collettiva? Climate Change Litigation and EU Private International Law: Is There Room for Collective Redress?;

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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia

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Over the last year Brazil has seen numerous innovative climate litigation claims filed that have questioned the country’s climate policies and general effects of activities on climate change. (I The Amazon rainforest, the country’s not-so-secret weapon to mitigate climate change, features prominently in the litigation. Climate Damage.

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