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“No Go Lugano”: the EU formally withholds it’s consent to the UK joining the Lugano Convention 2007
The European Commission has formally rejected the UK’s application to accede to the Lugano Convention on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of civil and commercial matters that was concluded… Read more »
“Dieselgate” before the European Court of Justice (Michael McParland QC writes for Practical Law’s Dispute Resolution Blog)
In Verein für Konsumenteninformation (VKI) v Volkswagen AG, the European Court of Justice determined whether the special jurisdiction provisions of article 7(2) of the Brussels I (Recast) Regulation (1215/2012) should be interpreted in a… Read more »
“Dieselgate” VW’s before the CJEU: No smoke without special tort jurisdiction under the Brussels I Regulation?
The important recent decision in Verein für Konsumenteninformation (“VKI”) v Volkswagen AG (C-343/19) (9 July 2020) (see here) involved an action brought in Austria by an Austrian consumer organisation (VKI)… Read more »
The EU Response to Covid-19: the New Temporary Framework of State Aid Control
Read Andrea Biondi’s blog post for EU Law Enforcement on the ‘EU Response to Covid-19’ here.
Off to Luxembourg again: Anti-Suit Injunctions and a “Right to be Sued” in your own domicile (Part Deux)
I have written previously about the 23 July 2019 decision of Lavender J. in Gray v Hurley [2019] EWHC 1972 (QB), in which the English court was asked by an… Read more »
VAT in the UK after Brexit – Timothy Lyons QC (Tijdschrift voor Fiscaal Recht (TFR))
Timothy Lyons QC’s article ‘VAT in the UK after Brexit’ has been published in Belgian journal Tijdschrift voor Fiscaal Recht. Please click here to view the article (please note that… Read more »
Billing lawyers: Bar Association Fees and Cross-Border Litigation in Europe
On 5 December 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) handed down its judgment in the interesting case of Ordre des avocate du barreau de Dinant v… Read more »
“Truck On”: Special jurisdiction in tort for damage claims arising out of cartel price fixing
On 29 July 2019, the CJEU handed down its ruling in Case C-451/18 Tibor-Trans Fuvarozó és Kereskedelmi Kft-v- DAF Trucks NV, which deals with the important question of where is… Read more »
Jurisdiction in Construction Disputes involving Cross-Border Fraudulent Transfers of Assets
Debtors often try to make themselves judgment proof by transferring their assets to third parties. Consequently, all EU Member States provide various legal remedies that empower a creditor to ask… Read more »
The Applicable Law Of Set-Off And Cross-Border Insolvency Proceedings: The Advocate General’s 30 April 2019 Opinion In CeDe Group AB
Today, Advocate General Bobek has delivered his opinion in Case C-198/18 CeDe Group AB v KAN Sp. z.o.o. (in insolvency) (see here), a case which relates to the vitally important… Read more »
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