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Il résulte de l’article 14 de la Convention internationale de Londres du 28 avril 1989 sur l’assistance que l’indemnité spéciale, à laquelle a droit celui qui a porté assistance, sans résultat utile, à un navire en péril qui menaçait l’environnement, vise toutes les dépenses, sans distinguer celles engagées pour préserver le navire de celles engagées pour préserver l’environnement.

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Francisco Javier Zamora Cabot has placed the following paper on SSRN:

Access of Victims to Justice and Foreign Conducts: The U.S.S.C. Gives Another Turning of the Screw in the Obb Personenverkeher V. Sachs Case, on Sovereign Immunity

The text is in Spanish, but the English abstract reads:

This Note addresses an outline and a critical approach of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States of America in Sachs case. After an introduction bringing to the fore in tune with the rulings made by the High Court in its recent and well-known jurisprudence, outstanding among which are Kiobel and Daimler, we present the precedents of the case and the main arguments put forward by the reporting Justice Roberts. Such arguments are debated afterwards in a long and detailed way, following overall assessments on the Decision. With respect to our conclusive comments we refer to the possibility of introducing into both the US jurisdictional system and sovereign immunity the foundations of the methodological approaches of the US modern doctrine as far as the choice of the applicable law is concerned, advocating for a greater awareness on the part of the Supreme Court with regard to the critical problem of access to justice.

The European Commission today published the Proposal for the Brussels IIbis Recast and issued a press release.

There are no changes to jurisdiction in divorce matters, but quite a few significant ones on parental responsibility.

The Proposed Regulation clearly seeks to enhance children’s rights, referring explicitly to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights and to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (see recitals 13 and 23). It also introduces a separate provision on the obligation for courts to give children the opportunity to be heard (Art. 20).

Furthermore the Proposal aims to improve the efficacy of return proceedings after international parental child abduction. It requires Member States to concentrate the local jurisdiction for these procedures on a limited number of courts (Art. 22) and to limit the number of appeals to one (Art. 25(4)). It clarifies that the six-weeks time frame applies to each instance (Art. 23(1)). Courts will also have to  examine the possibility of mediation and agreed solutions without losing time (Art. 23(2)).

As expected, the Commission seeks to abolish exequatur proceedings for all parental responsibility cases (Art. 30). The proposal contains a mechanism to request the refusal of recognition or enforcement (Arts. 40-42). This is similar to the route eventually taken in Brussels Ibis (Regulation 1215/2012).

There are many other proposed changes, on issues such as provisional measures, cooperation, the resourcing of Central Authorities, the placement of children in another Member State and a better coordination with the 1996 Hague Child Protection Convention, but I will leave the reader to discover them.

Arbitrage

Contrat de travail, rupture

Cour d'appel de Rennes, Chambre spéciale des mineurs, 17 juin 2016

Tribunal de grande instance de Fort de France, Commission d'indemnisation des victimes d'infractions, 17 juin 2016

Non renvoyée au Conseil constitutionnel

A new session within the series Seminario Julio D. González Campos, organized by the Department of Private International Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, will be held on July 8th, 2016, starting at 10:30 pm. The speaker will be Dr. Matthias Weller, Professor of Civil Law, Civil Procedural Law and Private International Law at the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht; he will address the topic “Mutual Trust: Still Corner Stone for Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters after the Brexit?”

Venue: Seminar room V (4th Floor), Faculty of Law.

For further information please contact mariajesus.elvira@uam.es.

Kossowski
DFON
Un suspect peut de nouveau être poursuivi dans un État Schengen lorsque les poursuites antérieures dans un autre État Schengen ont été clôturées sans instruction approfondie

The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, heading an international consortium, is undertaking a study, funded by the European Commission, aiming to assess the impact of domestic laws of civil procedure of the 28 Member States on mutual trust and the free circulation of judgements, as well as on the enforcement of consumer rights derived from EU law.

As a part of this project, a public consultation has been launched for gathering data and opinions among stakeholders.

Direct access to the two online questionnaires, which mirror the two separate strands of the study, are currently available (in six languages) here.

The Institute encourages consumers, lawyers, judges, academics, consumer protection associations, business/trade associations, dispute resolution facilitators, and those working in other legal professions to respond to both questionnaires.

For those wishing to offer further insights on any of the topics covered by the study, it will be possible to leave the contact details at the end of the survey so as to be contacted for an interview.

Le Premier ministre était à l’Assemblée nationale mardi 28 juin 2016 pour son premier discours officiel après le vote des Britanniques pour la sortie de l’Union Européenne. « Il faut respecter ce choix démocratique » reconnaît-il, tout en pressant le parlement britannique de déclencher l’article 50 « le plus tôt possible ».

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Le délai raisonnable prévu par l’article 5, § 3, de la Convention européenne s’applique en matière d’extradition. La chambre criminelle juge par ailleurs sérieuse une QPC mettant en cause le régime du placement sous écrou extraditionnel.

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