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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

The Third Chamber argued that the concept of “judgment” in Articles 2(a) and 39 of the Brussels Ibis Regulation refers to the different procedural laws of EU Member States. The decision concerns a classical question of classification: the delimitation of succession law from procedural law. Notifications: H.

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Shell litigation in the Dutch courts – milestones for private international law and the fight against climate change

Conflict of Laws

First, Shell stated that the claimants abused procedural law, because the claims against Royal Dutch Shall were ‘obviously bound to fail and for that reason could not serve as a basis for jurisdiction as provided in art. 6a, enabling a choice of law for victims of business-related human rights violations. 7(1) DCCP’ (at [3.1]