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Supreme Court limits homeowners’ ability to sue their lenders in tort

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Balancing “the interests of homeowners in default against those seeking affordable home loans,” the Supreme Court in Sheen v. ” The court settles a conflict in Court of Appeal case law and notes a similar divide in federal district court rulings.

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Court endorses private Section 1983 enforcement of spending clause enactments

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Jackson explained that two well-established principles prompted the court to reject HHC’s invitation to reimagine the statute and precedent. The court then applied its long-standing two-step analysis to conclude that FNHRA is enforceable through Section 1983. First, FNHRA “unambiguously” confers individual federal rights.

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Now or Then? The Temporal Aspects of Choice-of-Law Clauses

Conflict of Laws

courts interpret choice-of-law clauses. That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. There was, however, one important omission.

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 2/2021

Conflict of Laws

The duties of care of a sponsor under contract and/or tort law are also determined by the degree of control exercised by a sponsor and the economic dependence of the athlete on the sponsor. Kanning: Unification of Commercial Contract Law: The Role of the Dominant Economy, Volume 85 (2021) / Issue 2, pp.

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The Critical Role of Lawyers and Bar Associations in Achieving Net Zero

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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. “You

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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

Conflict of Laws

The monograph predominantly examines 19 Indonesian court decisions on choice of law in international commercial contracts during the period, 2000-2020. As the reader, one thing I found striking about Indonesian practice is that a choice of foreign law alone can oust the jurisdiction of the Indonesian courts.

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What it’s like to be a law student turned legal secretary

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Therefore, personally I thought that these subjects were areas of law that directly affected especially marginalised people. To explore them further, I undertook work experience at various organisations and decided that I will be more suited for the role of a Barrister. Search the latest Legal Secretary jobs. Browse jobs.