Ioannis Revolidis, Lecturer at the L-Università ta’ Malta (UM), has published an article titled Collective Redress in Environmental Matters – A Private International Law Perspective Through the Lens of the Dieselgate Scandal, which can be downloaded here. The Dieselgate emissions scandal, which surfaced in 2015, implicated several European car manufacturers found to have installed software ..read more

A new handbook titled European Judicial Cooperation in Cross-Border Litigation, edited by Paolo Biavati and Michele Angelo Lupoi, has just been published by Bologna University Press. The blurb reads as follows: There is an increasing amount of European legislation in procedural matters, with which legal practitioners from EU member States (and beyond) must deal on ..read more

Sometimes You Lose, Sometimes You Win I have reported about Austrian customers’ attempts to recover their losses from Maltese online casinos and the resulting conflict of jurisdiction previously. Yet sometimes the customer actually wins! And – surprise, surprise – the online casinos refuse to pay out by invoking the prohibition of gambling under the Austrian ..read more

A new book titled Brussels II-ter – Cross-border Marriage Dissolution, Parental Responsibility Disputes and Child Abduction in the EU has been published by Larcer-Intersentia. The authors of the book are Nigel Lowe (Cardiff University), Constanza Honorati (Milano-Bicocca University) and Michael Hellner (Stockholm University). The description of the book at the publisher’s website reads as follows ..read more

On 11 April 2024, the CJEU delivered its judgment in case C-183/23, Credit Agricole Bank Polska. The case was concerned with a consumer who was previously domiciled in a Member State, but who had relocated to an unknown location. It raised the issue of the territorial scope of the Brussels I bis Regulation. The CJEU confirms its ..read more

As announced in a previous post, the tenth Congress of Private International Law of the Carlos III University of Madrid will take place on 16 and 17 May 2024. It will be devoted to the recognition and enforcement of decisions in the area of family law and other procedural issues. The speakers include Esperanza Castellanos ..read more

In a judgment of 20 February 2024, the Rotterdam District Court awarded a provisional measure in relation to the transfer of property rights regarding a property situated in Spain on condition that proceedings on the merits would be initiated by the claimant before the competent Spanish court. Facts A person identified in the case as ..read more

Marie Linton (Uppsala University) has kindly prepared this presentation of her recent book titled ‘Erkännande och verkställighet av utländska domar i förmögenhetsrätt‘ (Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Commercial Matters), published by Norstedts Juridik 2023. What is the significance of a foreign judgment in Sweden? Is the judgment effective? Can assets in Sweden be seized ..read more

This post was written by Mathilde Codazzi, who is a doctoral student at Paris II Pantheon-Assas. In a judgment of 7 February 2024, the French Cour de cassation ruled that a compensatory allowance claim (“prestation compensatoire”) brought before French courts after the divorce was granted by a Belgian judgment is inadmissible. Background The spouses had ..read more

Many will remember the brilliant Austrian-American conflicts scholar Albert A. Ehrenzweig. He is associated with the ‘lex fori theory’, according to which courts faced with cross-border situations should primarily follow their own national law. He is also, together with Eric Jayme, the author of a multi-volume treatise on private international law. This short description does ..read more