Agrégateur de flux

L’article 132-23 du code pénal permet, sous réserve de la réunion des conditions légales, l’application d’une période de sûreté sans que le juge ait à la prononcer expressément. Ce mécanisme ne méconnaît pas les principes d’individualisation et de nécessité des peines. Le texte est donc déclaré conforme à la Constitution.

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Thank you 20 Essex Street for flagging (and analysing)  [2018] EWHC 3009 (Comm) Qingdao Huiquan, granting anti-suit against a foreign litigant who is not a party to an exclusive choice of forum agreement (in particular: arbitration agreed in a settlement agreement). The third party, SDHX, is engaging in proceedings in China, and is related to one of the parties to the settlement agreement.

SDHX appeal to privity of contract is tainted by its invoking elements of the settlement agreement in the Chinese proceedings. Under relevant authority, this was ground for Bryan J to issue aint-suit against it.

A classic cake and eating it scenario, one could say: at 36: ‘I have had particular regard to the fact that it is clear from the Settlement Agreement that SDHX is indeed seeking to rely upon the terms of the Settlement Agreement in advancing its claims in the Chinese proceedings and that, in doing so, therefore, it has to take the burden of the arbitration clause, if an arbitration clause be a burden,..as well as the benefits that it seeks to derive from that agreement.’

Evidently Brussels I Recast is not engaged.

Geert.

European private international law, second ed. 2016, Chapter 2, Heading 2.2.2.10.

The media have been reporting on a considerable class action lawsuit, underway in the English courts, in the Corporate Social Responsibility /mass torts category.

The class action case was filed against Anglo-Australian company BHP Billiton on behalf of 240,000 individuals, 24 municipal governments, 11,000 businesses, a Catholic archdiocese and about 200 members of the Krenak indigenous community. It concerns victims of the Samarco dam collapse in Mariana three years ago.

I am reporting the case simply to ensure complete overview of the CSR /jurisdiction /applicable law issues reported on the blog. For as I am co-counsel acting for the applicants, I am not in a position to comment on the case until and if legal analysis will be in the public domain.

Geert.

(Handbook of) European Private International Law, 2nd ed. 2016, Chapter 8, Heading 8.3.

Propriété littéraire et artistique

UBS AG, sa filiale française et six anciens cadres de la banque sont poursuivis devant le tribunal correctionnel de Paris pour démarchage bancaire illégal, blanchiment de fraude fiscale et complicité de ses délits entre 2004 et 2012. La justice estime à 10 milliards les sommes non déclarées au FISC. La banque risque une amende de 5 milliards d’euros, le parquet national financier (PNF) en a requis, hier, 3,7 milliards d’euros.

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