Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

For litigants embroiled in cross-border litigation, the anti-suit injunction has become a staple in the conflict of laws arsenal of common law courts. This was the scenario facing the New Zealand High Court in the recent case of Kea Investments Ltd v Wikeley Family Trustee Limited [2022] NZHC 2881.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, no substantial revisions were made to the provisions concerning foreign-related civil litigation. The new law widens the category of disputes previously covered from “contractual disputes or other property rights disputes” to “litigation other than disputes involving personal relationships” (Art. Jurisdiction 2.1 276, para.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 2, 2023

On 30 December 2022, China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress issued the “Civil Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China (amendment draft)”. Special jurisdiction: Present special jurisdiction rules apply to “disputes concerning contract or other property rights or interests”. Jurisdiction. 276, para.

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At the Lectern

JULY 6, 2023

Responding to questions asked by the Ninth Circuit about California law, the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan precludes an action alleging a construction worker’s wife contracted COVID from her husband due to his employer’s failure to abide by government health orders at the beginning of the pandemic.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The revision of this regulation, which will enter into force on 1 July 2022, provides an opportunity to examine the current and future rules by taking the example of the international service of writs of summons. Predictability is the core ambition, not a particular outcome in litigation. van Calster: Lex ecologia.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 29, 2023

The respective rule invalidated marriages contracted validly according to the national law of the intended spouses if one of them was younger than 16 years of age (Art. While the decision is formally a procedural one, its most striking passages address substantive tort law. 13 ss 3 no 1 EGBGB).

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SimplyLawJobs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Our partner’s The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs are delighted to be offering live online classes , which start on Wednesday 26 January 2022. Unit 2: Law of Contract & Law of Tort. Unit 3: Civil Litigation Practice. The units are set out as follows: . Unit 1: English Legal System.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems.

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LexForti

JUNE 2, 2022

It was clearly pronounced that “there appears to be no restriction on third parties (non-lawyers) funding the litigation and getting repaid after the outcome of the litigation” [18]. It is advised that certain safeguards be explicitly mentioned in the financing contract and conflict-of-interest guidelines. Balaji [17].

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2022

Reimann: Human Rights Litigation Beyond the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Crucial Role of the Act of State Doctrine. The Kashef case currently before the federal courts in New York shows that human rights litigation against corporate defendants in the United States is alive and well. Unlike the Principles, however, Law No.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Convention, the FSIL deals separately with employment contracts (Article 8) and intellectual property cases (Article 11). The NPC Standing Committee also helpfully changed Article 9’s territorial tort exception to clarify when that exception applies. The general practice in China is that courts, rather than litigants, serve process.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

The EU Commission published a long awaited Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), COM(2022) 71 final, on 23 February 2022; the EU Council adopted its negotiation position on 1 December 2022; and now, the EU Parliament has suggested amendments to this Draft Directive on 1 June 2023.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kieninger : Climate Change Litigation and Private International Law. The regulative advantages of party autonomy, i.e. efficiency, legal certainty and conflict of laws justice, can be productive in choice of law contracts involving artificial intelligence. Clearly, national contract laws will differ substantially in their solutions.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 27, 2023

was published by Sweet & Maxwell in September 2022. Volume 2 covers family law, property law, succession and trusts, corporations and bankruptcy, contracts, torts, unjust enrichment and equitable claims, and foreign currency obligations. the Lord Collins of Mapesbury and Professor Jonathan Harris KC (Hon.),

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 12, 2023

In December 2022, Chinese lawmakers published a draft law on foreign state immunity , an English translation of which has recently become available. s official languages here ) adopts the restrictive theory, providing exceptions to foreign state immunity for commercial activities, territorial torts, etc. That left China.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Wikimedia Commons. and non-U.S. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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