Agrégateur de flux

La grande chambre de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH) a fait droit à la demande de l’Italie dans le cadre de l’éloignement d’un enfant né par GPA, celle-ci étant contraire à l’ordre public. Ce faisant, elle infirme la position de la CEDH sous l’angle de l’article 8 de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme en matière d’absence de tout lien biologique entre l’enfant et les requérants.

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L’accord franco-ivoirien du 24 avril 1961 sur l’accord de coopération en matière de justice permet aux ressortissants de l’un des deux pays d’assister et de représenter leur client ponctuellement devant les juridictions de l’autre pays. Il n’autorise pas l’inscription au barreau. La cour d’appel de Paris a donc infirmé la décision du conseil de l’Ordre des avocats de Seine-Saint-Denis qui a admis l’inscription au tableau d’un avocat de nationalité ivoirienne.

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Sécurité sociale - Cotisations - Paiement

Sécurité sociale, contentieux - Contentieux général - Procédure

Bail commercial

Bail rural - Urbanisme

Bail d'habitation

The president and Mrs Trump keep on exercising the courts. In Melania Trump v Webster Tarpley and Mail Media, Inc., the circuit court for Montgomery County, Maryland, accepted jurisdiction against the former, who is resident in Maryland, but rejected it against the latter, who is resident at New York. (It is registered there and also has its head office there). The second defendant is most likely the owner of the website dailymail.com and dailymail.co.uk. Whether that was really the case was left in the middle though for the Daily Mail group (whom Wikipedia today confirmed as no longer accepting as a source of facts), wanted the judge to rule on the merits of jurisdiction rather than on a possibly wrongly identified defendant.

Alleged libel concerns reports published by Mr Tarpley, a blogger, and the Daily Mail, relating to remarks, later retracted by both defendants, on alleged past racy activities of Mrs Trump. At issue was whether the courts at Maryland have personal jurisdiction over Mail Media. Mrs Trump’s legal team suggest publication of defamatory material in a publication with significant circulation in the forum state, suffices for jurisdiction. This, they argue, is compounded by targeted interactivity between the Daily Mail and readers in Maryland. Mail Media suggest there is no direct connection between Maryland and the Mail Article at issue and that even if the court were to accept such connection, jurisdiction should be refused on the basis of forum non conveniens.

The court accepted the first defence and did not therefore entertain the second. P.7: operating a website, even one that is popular and makes money from advertising, is not ‘purposeful availment’ under precedent rule: the publication has to intentionally enter the forum market: the MAil’s influence in the US is on a national (federal) basis.

Note to class: compare the court’s approach with that of European courts under the Brussels I Recast Regulation.

Mrs Trump has now refiled in New York, where both her and second defendant are resident.

Geert.

I thought it might be worth to draw your attention to a couple of interesting papers that I came across on SSRN recently (without any claim of completeness):

On Brexit and Private International Law:

• Matthias Lehmann & Nihal Dsouza (University of Bonn), What Brexit Means for the Interpretation and Drafting of Financial Contracts
• John Armour (University of Oxford), Holger Fleischer (MPI Hamburg), Vanessa Jane Knapp (Queen Mary University of London) & Martin Winner (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Brexit and Corporate Citizenship
• Mukarrum Ahmed (Lancaster University) & Paul R. Beaumont (University of Aberdeen), Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements: Some Issues on the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements and its Relationship with the Brussels I Recast Especially Anti-Suit Injunctions, Concurrent Proceedings and the Implications of Brexit 
• Mukarrum Ahmed (Lancaster University), Brexit and English Jurisdiction Agreements: The Post-Referendum Legal Landscape

On EU Private International Law:

• Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (Université de Lyon), The Gap between Legal Disciplines, Blind Spot of the Research in Law: Remarks on the Operation of Private International Law in the EU Context
• Evangelos Vassilakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), The Choice of the Law Applicable to the Succession under Regulation 650/2012 – An Outline
• Laura van Bochove (Leiden University), Purely Economic Loss in Conflict of Laws: The Case of Tortious Interference with Contract
• Ilaria Pretelli (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law), Exclusive and Discretionary Heads of Jurisdiction for Third States and Lugano States: The Way Forward
• Ugljesa Grusic (Faculty of Laws, University College London), Long-Term Business Relationships and Implicit Contracts in European Private Law
• Matthias Haentjens & Dorine Verheij (Leiden University), Finding Nemo: Locating Financial Losses after Kolassa/Barclays Bank and Profit
• Remus Titiriga (INHA University), Revival of Rabel’s Trans-National Characterization for Rules of Conflict? Some Answers in a European Convention
• Berk Demirkol (University of Galatasaray), Droit Applicable aux Contrats de Construction (Law Applicable to Construction Contracts)

On non-EU Private International Law:

• Patrick Borchers (Creighton University School of Law), Is the Supreme Court Really Going to Regulate Choice of Law Involving States?
• Akawat Laowonsiri (Thammasat University ), Conflict of Genders in Conflict of Laws: Unresolved Problems in Thailand and Elsewhere
• Ralf Michaels (Duke University School of Law) The Conflicts Restatement and the World
• Jinxin Dong (China University of Petroleum), On the Internationally Mandatory Rules of the PRC
• Hannah L. Buxbaum (Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law), Transnational Legal Ordering and Regulatory Conflict: Lessons from the Regulation of Cross-Border Derivatives
• Patrick Borchers (Creighton University School of Law), An Essay on Predictability in Choice-of-Law Doctrine and Implications for a Third Conflicts Restatement
• John F. Coyle (University of North Carolina School of Law), The Canons of Construction for Choice-of-Law Clauses   

International Arbitration

• Csongor István Nagy (University of Szeged), Central European Perspectives on Investor-State Arbitration: Practical Experiences and Theoretical Concerns
• Evangelos Kyveris (University College London), An In-Depth Analysis on the Conflicting Decisions in Dallah v. Pakistan: Same Law, Same Principles, Different Decisions 

Par un arrêt du 17 janvier 2017, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme s’est prononcée sur le caractère équitable du procès de personnes condamnées principalement sur le fondement des témoignages de « repentis » issus du milieu criminel.

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