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Channel: Conflict of Laws /Private international law – gavc law – geert van calster

In essence: Owusu rules. CJEU confirms absence in principle of reflexive...

The CJEU confirmed this morning in C‑339/22 BSH Hausgeräte GmbH v Electrolux AB (no language versions other than French and Swedish at the time of posting) that in principle Brussels Ia’s exclusive...

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Società Italiana Lastre. The CJEU (once again ignoring renvoi nb) in strong...

Background to Case C-537/23 Società Italiana Lastre SpA (SIL) v Agora SARL, in which the CJEU held yesterday, is here. The choice of court clause that is the subject of the proceedings reads the court...

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CJEU on substantive validity and on asymmetric clauses: what we now know, and...

I am much pleased that Dr Brooke Marshall has accepted to write on CJEU Lastre for the blog. Dr Marshall has written the guiding volume on the issue (highlights of the book’s launch are here). True to...

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Liverpool Fans v UEFA. The High Court rejects suggestion Foreign Act of State...

I could not quite think of a catchier title conveying both the plus (claim will continue to be heard in England) and the minus (the discussion having already caused considerable delay), without...

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Da Silva v Brazil Iron. High Court, applying the Court of Appeal’s approach...

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IDBI Bank v Axcel Sunshine. A good illustration of the purely domestic...

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Applicable law in follow-on competition cases. Dutch Supreme Court refers to...

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Truck cartel. Dutch Supreme Court minded to refer to the CJEU on Rome II’s...

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Quilombola v Norsk Hydro. A late flag on burden of proof for statute of...

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Commercial Bank of Dubai v Al Sari. Approaching ‘purely economic loss’ in...

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