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Asian Conflict of Laws: East and South East Asia, a cura di Alejandro Carballo Leyda, Wolters Kluwer, 2015, pp. 336,  ISBN: 9789041147561, Euro 160.

[Dal sito dell’editore] An essential resource for both practitioners and academics, Asian Conflict of Laws: East and South East Asia, provides a comprehensive overview of the various approaches to private international law among the crucially important trade jurisdictions of East and South East Asia. Gain expert guidance from local specialists who deliver thorough commentary and analysis on fourteen jurisdictions of the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. With a lack of legal harmonization between these countries, this useful book will be an essential resource for both practitioners and academics operating in this region. The authors describe, in a clear and logically structured way, practice and procedure regarding: codification of private international law and relevance of case law; jurisdiction of local courts in foreign-related cases (including choice of court and arbitration clauses); applicable law; international civil procedure; recognition and enforcement of foreign (judicial and arbitral) decisions.

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Dans un arrêt rendu le 30 juillet 2015, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH) réitère les principes de l’article 5 de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme relatif au droit à la liberté et la sureté, et plus précisément les dispositions  prévues au paragraphe 3 de cet article concernant la durée de détention provisoire selon lequelles « toute personne arrêtée et détenue a le droit d’être jugée dans un délai raisonnable ».

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Paul Beaumont, Professor of European Union and Private International Law and Director of the Centre for Private International Law, University of Aberdeen (Scotland/UK), and Jayne Holliday, Research Assistant and Secretary of this Centre, have published an insightful and carefully researched new working paper on “Recent Developments on the Meaning of ‘Habitual Residence’ in Alleged Child Abduction Cases” in the series of the Aberdeen Centre for PIL (Working Paper No. 2015/3, the full content is available here). The highly recommended article is based on an overview of the recent developments within European and International Family Law that was presented by Professor Beaumont at the conference on “Private International Law in the Jurisprudence of European Courts – Family at Focus” held in Osijek, Croatia, June 2014. Drawing from that presentation, the working paper focuses on the recent developments on the meaning of habitual residence in child abduction cases from the UK Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In particular, the authors analyze the move by the UK Supreme Court towards a more uniform definition of habitual residence in line with the jurisprudence of the CJEU under the Brussels IIbis Regulation.

The authors summarize their findings as follows:

“Over the past 30 years the concept of habitual residence of the child in the UK has developed from one which put weight on parental intention to a mixed model, which takes a more child centric and fact based approach. By following the jurisprudence of the CJEU, the UK Supreme Court has made a genuine and conscious attempt to provide a uniform interpretation of the 1980 Abduction Convention. This will hopefully have the effect of creating a more uniform approach to the definition of habitual residence amongst all Contracting States to the Hague Abduction Convention. […] If enough weight is given to parental intention of the custodial parent(s) of newborns then physical presence is not required to establish habitual residence. This is an easier solution to arrive at if the myth that habitual residence is a pure question of fact is abandoned. Whilst a mixed question of fact and law is the best way to analyse the ‘habitual residence’ of the young child, it is not appropriate to introduce into the equation a suggestion that somehow habitual residence cannot change when the custodial parent lawfully removes a child to another country just because that decision was still subject to appeal in that country even though the appeal did not suspend the custodial parent’s right to take the child out of the country lawfully. Such an appeal should not prevent the loss of the child’s habitual residence in the country where the appeal is made and should not impact on the ‘stability’ of the child’s residence in the new jurisdiction to prevent habitual residence being established there within a few months of the residence beginning.”

Pourvoi c/ Tribunal d'instance de Poissy, 3 juillet 2015

Par un arrêt du 7 juillet 2015, le Tribunal de l’Union européenne éclaire la portée de la condition de l’affection directe prévue à l’article 263 du TFUE relatif à la recevabilité des recours en annulation destinés à contester un acte adopté par une institution, un organe ou un organisme de l’Union.

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Matthias Weller is Professor for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Private International Law at the EBS University for Economics and Law Wiesbaden and Director of the Research Center for Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution (www.ebs.edu/tcdr) of the EBS Law School.

Mutual trust amongst the Member States of the European Union in other legal systems is a prerequisite for the expansion of the free movement of judgments and judicial titles within the European Judicial Area. To justify such mutual trust amongst the European Member States requires, inter alia, the definition of common minimum standards in the various judicial systems.

A joint project between the law faculties of the University of Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Christoph Althammer) and the EBS Law School in Wiesbaden (Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller, Mag.rer.publ.) has set itself the goal to search for and explore further such minimum standards in the judicial systems within the European Judicial Area. After the first conference in Wiesbaden in 2014 (see conference report earlier on this blog here), where the discussion has been initiated from a broader perspective, the project will be continued with the upcoming two-days-conference in Regensburg (conference language: German) that is dedicated to a central issue within this field: European minimum standards for judicial bodies.

The focus will be on three main requirements (independence, efficiency, specialization) which will be presented by experts from both academia and legal practice. These topics will be complemented by a legal comparative analysis with regard to the French, Greek and Italian legal system before the discussion will conclude with a final synthesis.

We would like to cordially invite you to join the discussion! For registration and the conference flyer see here.

On 23 June 2015, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached a compromise concerning the amendment of Regulation N0 861/2007, establishing the European Small Claims Procedure.

The text of the amending Regulation, as contemplated by the compromise, may be found here. The actual legislative measure will be formally adopted in the coming months.

Under the reformed Regulation, the European Small Claims Procedure will apply to “civil and commercial matters in cross-border cases … where the value of a claim does not exceed EUR 5000 at the time when the claim form is received by the court or tribunal with jurisdiction, excluding all interest, expenses and disbursements”. The current ceiling is 2000.

In five years’ time the Commission shall present a report on the operation of the Regulation, including an evaluation as to whether a further increase of the threshold above. On the same occasion, the Commission will look into the possibility of extending the scope of the European Small Claims Procedure so as to “facilitate access to justice for employees in cross-border employment disputes with their employer, in particular to claims for remuneration”.

The amended Regulation, though less innovative than the Commission had originally proposed, will have an impact on a number of practical issues raised by the application of the existing rules, including issues relating to the court fees charged to claimants (fees will have to be proportional to the value of the claim, but there will be no fixed cap) and the payment of such fees (Member States will be under an obligation to accept electronic payments).

Videoconferencing and, more generally, the use of remote communications technology, will be encouraged, although the Member States will not be under a legal duty to make the relevant equipment available to courts and litigants.

La Commission européenne a publié, le 9 juillet 2015, son 32e rapport annuel consacré à l’application du droit de l’Union pour l’année 2014, à travers un bilan général, des statistiques et les principales avancées en la matière.

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Les blessures du requérant constatées après une arrestation, ayant occasionné un coma, sans que les autorités internes ne fournissent une explication satisfaisante et convaincante quant à leur origine, constituent une violation de l’article 3 de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme.

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