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Amendment of Chinese Civil Procedure Law Concerning Foreign Affairs

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Add provisions on parallel litigation First, this revision adds a general provision for parallel litigation and a mechanism for coordinating jurisdictional conflicts.

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Overview of the 2023 Amendments to Chinese Civil Procedure Law

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Background China’s Civil Procedure Law was enacted in April 1991 by the Fourth Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress. However, no substantial revisions were made to the provisions concerning foreign-related civil litigation. Since then, it had undergone four revisions in 2007, 2012, 2017, and 2021. Jurisdiction 2.1

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

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As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Climate change and related human rights litigation is undoubtedly of increasing importance in private international law.

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German Federal Court of Justice: Article 26 Brussels Ia Regulation Applies to Non-EU Defendants

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In general, following the procedural law principle of actor sequitur forum rei , the Canadian trust should be brought to court in Canadian courts. 26 Brussels Ia Regulation can be part of a litigation strategy detrimental to the defendant A detailed analysis on the court’s ruling in German is available here. And unlike Art.

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Virtual Hearing in China’s Smart Court

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The pandemic causes serious disruption to litigation. In 2015, the Provisions of the SPC on Several Issues Concerning Registration and Filling of Cases provides the People’s courts should provide litigation services including online filing. [1] In China, mediation is part of the formal litigation procedure. Background.

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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 Kessler Cat is Still in the Studio: Restabilizing Res Judicata

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4] A lot has happened in procedural law 1907. The court’s Kessler doctrine operates applies to bar litigation in situations where these traditional forms of preclusion do not. The effect of judgment is inherent to every litigation, and the confusion created by the Federal Circuit in these cases is ripe for resolution. = = =.