Conflict of Laws

JUNE 30, 2022

As a landmark judicial policy issued by China’s Supreme People’s Court, the 2021 Conference Summary provides a detailed guideline for Chinese courts to review foreign judgment-related applications, including examination criteria, refusal grounds, and an ex ante internal approval mechanism. However, this situation is now changed.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Written by Hans van Loon, a member of GEDIP and former Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Meanwhile, however, on 10 March 2021 the European Parliament adopted a Resolution “with recommendations to the Commission on corporate due diligence and corporate accountability” [2]. 2] [link]. [3]

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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. Finally, this second chapter discusses the limits on choice of law, such as public policy and mandatory rules. 2] Penasthika (ibid). [3] 4] Penasthika (n 1), 179.

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2021

The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, Germany, ruled Thursday that Berlin’s Rent Cap Act is unconstitutional as it has undermined Germany’s Basic Law. The Act came into force last year, and its provisions are now deemed void as of April 2021. It froze rental rates for 1.5

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 10, 2023

In October 2021, the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI) organised a Roundtable on the recognition and enforcement of punitive damages across the globe. Experts from different continents reflected on the current position in their jurisdiction(s) and exchanged their understandings and ideas in the Roundtable.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

A review of this case law collection discloses an interesting phenomenon affecting the CISG’s Chinese application: at least, until very recently. 142(2) General Principles of the Civil Law , Australia’s CISG implementing Acts still ostensibly frame the treaty’s local application in terms of inconsistency. Pursuant to Art.

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SimplyLawJobs

MAY 24, 2021

It covers different aspects of public and civil law in the UK. The guests include law professors, legal specialists, and professionals. 5) More From Law. She teaches criminal law and blogs about different legal topics – from getting a law degree to fun facts and resources. « Older Entries.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 25, 2021

This feedback period is open until 5 February 2021 (midnight Brussels time) and may be provided by clicking here. Last week, the EAPIL blog published a post on the EU feedback period on modernising judicial cooperation between EU countries – use of digital technology (see here ). A possible future type of act is a proposal for a regulation.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One of the key documents prepared for the meeting is the Global Report – Statistical study of applications made in 2021 under the 1980 Child Abduction Convention , where crucial information has been gathered about the application of this Convention during the year 2021. Placement or provision of care of a child (incl.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. He argued that punitive damages seem to be one of the few legal institutions showing a sharp contrast between common law and civil law jurisdictions.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We translated the press announcement as follows: Background and Significance of the Interpretation People’s courts face the important issue of how international treaties and international practices are applied domestically in foreign-related civil and commercial trials.

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SimplyLawJobs

JUNE 25, 2021

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 30, 2021

Andreas Bucher (last updated 2021): www.andreasbucher-law.ch ; Umbricht attorneys (2017): www.umbricht.ch/de/schweizerisches-internationales-privatrecht-iprg 1294 (1990), 1295 , “Translation of Legal Texts: Three English Versions of the Swiss Federal Statute on Private International Law”). Walter König, 11 Mich.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The EU Commission’s Proposal of 1 December 2021 outlines, in its introductory Recitals: “Efficient cross-border judicial cooperation requires secure, reliable and time-efficient communication between courts and competent authorities.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

Midori NARAZAKI, Climate Change Litigation and Private International Law: Review of the Hague District Court’s Judgment against Royal Dutch Shell Abstract: This paper analyzes a landmark decision by the District Court of The Hague on May 26, 2021, ordering Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 15, 2022

At the time of the trial court’s decision, the 1962 Uniform Act governed in New York, but it was superseded by the 2005 Uniform Act on June 11, 2021. In nine additional states, its predecessor, the 1962 Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act , remains in effect. On this, the Appellate Division was clearly correct.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 9, 2021

18] Interestingly enough, Germany, a typical civil law country, and other EU countries have also seemingly taken a U-turn by starting to issue anti-anti-suit injunctions in international litigation in response to anti-suit injunctions made by other foreign courts, especially the US court. [19]. 2019) Zui Gao Fa Zhi Min Zhong No.732,

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2020

In case no choice-of-law rules existed at that time, the Private International Law Act may be resorted to in order to determine the applicable law. 16] See Zhengxin Huo, ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Commentary on the Judicial Interpretation on the Private International Law Act of China’ (2013) 43 HKLJ 685, 710. [17]

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LexForti

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Scope and Extent of Amendment of Pleadings, [link] (last visited Oct 10, 2021). The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, Order VI Rule 1. The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, Order VI Rule 16. 9] The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, Order VI Rule 16. [10] 10] The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, Order VI Rule 18. [11]

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LexForti

JUNE 2, 2022

Nevertheless, taking into account the importance of the place in International arbitration, proposals were made for legitimizing TPF which was finally accepted and started to take shape in 2017 through a new framework for TPF which included the “Civil Law (Third-Party Funding) Regulations 2017. 12] Union of India v. 61–83 (2018). [29]

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2022

Since its founding in 1949, the PRC have undertaken numerous endeavors to codify its civil law, which finally culminated in this codification. With the Civil Code’s implementation on January 1st, 2021, the leges speciales, which had been drawn upon as essential basis for the seven books of the Civil Code, were replaced by the latter.

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JURIST

AUGUST 17, 2021

Today, 17 August 2021, the Taliban’s spokesperson held his first press conference. A lot of students are wary about the job market, especially law students as most of the legal jobs in future would be carried out by male Taliban who think they are expert in Sharia Law.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Peruvian civil code traditionally did not allow fathers to register their children without revealing the identity of the mother, a situation that violated the right of equality.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The Nigerian landowners’ claim against Shell was thus barred by the limitation periods under applicable Nigerian law ( Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another [2023] UKSC 16 , on appeal from [2021] EWCA Civ 63 ).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 14, 2022

Additionally, under the common law, a “judgment” is an order of court which gives rise to res judicata. On the contrary, the Assistant Registrar in Shi Wen Yue v Shi Minjiu and another specifically pointed out that “a common law court must be conscious of the unexamined assumptions and biases of the common law”.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In June 2021, Pesaro commenced legal proceedings in Italy seeking to unwind or set aside these transactions. Dexia then brought an action in England to establish the transactions were valid, lawful and binding on the parties. A central question of the dispute was the law applicable to the contract.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Unlike in the 2021 landmark ruling in Neubauer et al. Moreover, the case illustrates how contested some elements of Germany’s climate transformation have been since the 2021 Neubauer decision. Germany that the federal government must adopt an immediate action program (‘Sofortprogramm’) under the Federal Climate Change Act (CCA).

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The Crime Report

JUNE 25, 2021

The degree to which “conscious or unconscious bias” might influence application of these standards in particular cases would be particularly hard for an outsider to gauge, given the highly opaque and even secretive OPA process, which the report says “mirrors to some degree the inquisitorial system utilized in civil law countries.”.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 27, 2021

This understanding of legal filiation is however relatively recent in France and is in contradiction with the civil law approach to filiation based on individual will.

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