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The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: PIL and Litigation Aspects

Conflict of Laws

This disclosure must adhere to national procedural laws. These two factors combined make these collective actions an enticing investment opportunity for the commercial third-party litigation funding (TPF) industry.

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India dispatches: CJI calls for ‘Indianisation’ of ‘colonial’ justice system

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V Ramana deploring the Indian justice system as “colonial” and calling for its “Indianisation” for the benefit of ordinary litigants. The CJI said that the judgments delivered by the courts these days are also becoming lengthy, which make them incomprehensible to litigants.

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New edition: Hess’ Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht

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Just over ten years after the first edition of Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht (European Civil Procedure) by Burkhard Hess (director Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Luxembourg) a second – even more voluminous and impressive – edition was published early 2021.

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The Power of Paralegal Mentors – An Interview with Ashley Stasiewich

Paralegal Bootcamp

Ashley’s a member and mentor, as you heard, of the Alberta Association of Professional Paralegals and an associate member of the Edmonton Law Office Managers Association. My background is primarily working in criminal law, and I typically work in a very small firm, and your lawyer is always off at court. All right, Dennis.

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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)

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Next, Chapter Four contains what I would describe as the real ‘meat’ of the monograph, looking at how Indonesian practitioners (judges and lawyers) handle choice of law in international commercial matters, particularly regarding issues of foreign law.

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Lago Agrio: Steven Donziger Sentenced to Six Months In Jail (with a Letters Blogatory Apologia)

LettersBlogatory

But I like to think that you, Letters Blogatory readers, or most of you anyway, are interested in reading about law cases as law cases. Anyone who is interested in the areas of procedural law I write about here, such as jurisdiction, service of process, etc., So there is value in knowing what the law is.

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Italian Supreme Court rules on recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment even if preceded by a worldwide freezing injunction

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Written by Marco Farina, Italian lawyer, PhD in Civil Procedural Law at the University La Sapienza of Rome – Adjunct Professor of Civil Procedural Law at the University LUISS of Rome. This is not an alteration of the procedural equality of the parties.