Agrégateur de flux

Etat - Responsabilité - Faute lourde - Discrimination

Etranger - Entrée ou sejour irrégulier - placement en garde à vue

Etranger - Rétention administrative - Compétence juge judiciaire

Majeur protégé - Mesure de protection judiciaire - Mainlevée

Filiation - action en recherche de paternité - prescription

Filiation - Actions aux fins d'établissement de la filiation

La Cour confirme que le régime de financement de la télévision publique espagnole (RTVE) est compatible avec les règles de l’Union en matière d’aides d’État

Simba Toys / EUIPO
Propriété intellectuelle et industrielle MARQ
La Cour annule l’arrêt du Tribunal et la décision de l’EUIPO qui validaient l’enregistrement de la forme du Rubik’s cube comme marque de l’Union

Commission / Grèce
Environnement et consommateurs
La Cour constate que la Grèce a manqué à son obligation de protéger les tortues marines Caretta caretta dans la baie de Kyparissia

The e-Justice portal, run by the Commission, features a dynamic form intended to help getting in touch with the national contact points of the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters. To know more about the tasks of the contact points, the kind of requests they can handle and those entitled to address such requests to the contact points, reference must be made to the decision that established the Network (decision 2001/470/EC, as amended by decision 2009/568/EC: the consolidated version may be found here).

È disponibile sul portale e-Justice, gestito dalla Commissione, un modulo dinamico inteso a facilitare le comunicazioni con i punti di contatto nazionali della Rete giudiziaria europea in materia civile e commerciale. Le funzioni dei punti di contatto, il genere di richieste di cui essi possono fasi carico e i soggetti autorizzati a rivolgersi a loro si ricavano dalla decisione istitutiva della Rete (decisione 2001/470/CE, nel testo consolidato risultante dalle modifiche apportate con la decisione 2009/568/CE).

Home Credit Slovakia
Rapprochement des législations PROT
L’omission du prêteur d’un crédit à la consommation d’inclure dans le contrat certaines informations essentielles peut être sanctionnée par la déchéance du droit aux intérêts et aux frais

Lehman Brothers [2016] EWHC 2699 (Comm) does not involve conflict of laws. Yet its discussion of the notion of ‘close of business’ reminded me of the relevance of Article 12(2) Rome I:

In relation to the manner of performance and the steps to be taken in the event of defective performance, regard shall be had to the law of the country in which performance takes place.

Lex loci solutionis supplements lex contractus for factual considerations such as closing times.

In the case at issue, between parties, a notice had to be served ‘by close of business’. A relevant fax transmission started at 5:54 PM and ended at 6:02 PM. Close of business by sender, it was alleged, was understood to be 7 PM. Recipient claimed COB was 5 PM. Blair J in para 147 ff justifiably points to the intention of flexibility behind the notion of COB: had parties wanted a precise cut-off time, they would and should have specified it. The High Court therefore relied on the (little) evidence given as to COB and accepted that in the modern world of commercial banking and even leaving aside the near non-existence of closing hours for investment bankers and the like, more or less 7 PM should be considered COB. (It was specifically stated that no precedent value can be attached to that time slot).

Geert.

(Handbook of) EU Private international law, 2nd ed. 2016, Chapter 3.