Agrégateur de flux

The Düsseldorf Airport and Professor Stephan Hobe from the Institute of Air and Space Law at the University of Cologne, in cooperation with the international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, have established a new series of events, which will deal with current topics of the aviation industry, involving internationally renowned experts before a selected audience.
The theme of the kick-off event could not be more up-to-date. Less than a week ago, British Ambassador Tim Barrow handed over to EU Council President Donald Tusk the first petition to trigger the application of Art. 50 TEU in the history of the European Union. The next two years will involve an unprecedented negotiating marathon in which the departure of Great Britain from the EU will be shaped.
Few areas are now as Europeanized as air transport. Air transport agreements need to be re-negotiated, the Single European Sky has to be restructured, airline ownership has to be checked – the impact of the Brexit on the aviation sector is unpredictable. The conference’s aim is to start with a first inventory. To this end, the organizers have invited distinguished experts from politics, academia, aviation associations, lawyers and international airports.
For further details and registration, please click here.

APVE e.a.
Concurrence
Selon l’avocat général Wahl, les organisations de producteurs agricoles et leurs associations peuvent se rendre coupables d’ententes contraires au droit de l’Union

The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law offers a limited number of PhD scholarships for foreign scholars to support their research stay at the Institute for up to twelve months.

Eligibility
Scholarships are offered to PhD students who plan to undertake research at the Institute within the Institute’s areas of research, i.e. international dispute resolution and comparative procedural law.

Application
A complete application file must include the following documents (in English):
.- cover letter (max. 1 page), indicating the motivation and also the link of your research with the research of the Institute;
.- curriculum vitae (indicating grades of the university degrees);
.- summary of the PhD project (max. 2 pages), including subject, description and working plan;
.- two (2) letters of recommendation (including one from the PhD supervisor, with his/her contact details).

Grant and benefits
The scholarship is paid in monthly installments of 1500 €.
Selected scholars will be offered a working place in the library reading room of the Institute and will have the opportunity to participate in the regular scientific events and other activities of the Institute.

Deadline for applications
30 April 2017

Application details
Please follow this link and apply online.

Contact
Viktoria Drumm: scholarship@mpi.lu

 

Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Recognition and enforcement intra-EU is now so smooth in civil and commercial matters, the European Commission wanted to abolish potential for refusal altogether in the Brussels I Recast (regular readers are aware I reported on it at the time of negotiation).

Thank you Clyde & Co for alerting me to the case: In [2017] EWHC 519 (Comm) Midtown Acquisitions v Essar Global parties settled their dispute in an agreement, under which the defendant accepted liability and “confessed to judgment”. The New York courts then entered a Judgment by Confession (similar to an English consent judgment). Recognition and enforcement was sought in England.

In the Brussels system, discussion is still possible on the very notion of ‘judgment’ as I have recently reported (see my postings on Pula Parking and Zulfikarpašić). Refusal of recognition is possible on very narrow grounds. Famously, under the Brussels regime, recognition does not require res judicata of the foreign (intra-EU) judgment. (A misleadingly simple statement made in all Reports. But I’ll leave the detail for another time (see eg Gothaer for earlier analysis).

Outside the Brussels regime however (lest the Brexit negotiations yield a continuing bridge between civil procedure in the UK and EU this will also apply to judgment issued by UK courts), discussion on these two points re-emerges: when can a ruling be considered a ‘judgment’, and does it have res judicata? Defendant in Midtown argues that the New York judgment was not a “judgment” as that expression is used in English law because (i) there was no lis between the parties in New York, (ii) the New York judgment was not final and conclusive and (iii) the New York judgment was not on the merits.

Teare J rejected all three arguments on the basis of relevant precedent. The judgment merits reading for it is a good reminder of the extent of argument ensuing when one is not covered by the umbrella of EU or international harmonisation of recognition and enforcement.  Complications which are not likely to assist the London legal market in maintaining its attraction post Brexit.

Geert.

(Handbook of) European Private International Law, Chapter 2, Heading 2.2.16.

The European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) launches its pilot webinar programme with two events in April 2017 which are now open for Registration. One of the webinars has special appeal for those working within the field of private international law. The webinar on the Wrongful removal or retention of the child – the Brussels IIbis Regulation will take place on Thursday, 20 April 2017 from 11:00 to 12:30 CET. It will provide participants a better understanding of the current legal landscape of cross-border child abduction in the EU and will also look at other key issues and aspects of the topic.

• Presenter: Carlos M. G. de Melo Marinho, Court of Appeal Judge, Co-Founder and Former National Contact Point of the European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters, Senior Expert on European and International Judicial Cooperation and E-justice, Portugal.
• Objectives: To provide a better understanding of the current legal landscape of the cross-border child abduction in the EU; to analyse the Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 (Brussels IIbis) as a true icon of the achievements of the European Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters generated by the approval of the Amsterdam Treaty; to underline the role of this Regulation as a precursor EU law text in a fruitful and unfinished process of suppression of the exequatur in the proceedings with a cross-border connection developed with a view to create a Common Space of Justice marked by the existence of mutual trust and direct contacts between courts and by the free circulation of decisions; to reveal the swift new ways that envisage to grant the return of a child wrongfully removed or retained, entailed by an enforceable judgment given in a Member State, in cases connected with two or more countries.
• Target audience: Judges and prosecutors, preferably those involved in judicial cooperation in civil matters. Other legal professionals having professional contact with these questions are also welcome to join.
• Registration is open from March 31, 2017, until the end of the webinar. Register online here.

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel de Limoges, chambre correctionnelle, 9 septembre 2016

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel de Montpellier, chambre de l'instruction, 13 octobre 2016

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel de Lyon, chambre correctionnelle, 16 septembre 2016

EUIPO / Szajner
Propriété intellectuelle et industrielle
La Cour confirme que la société Forge de Laguiole peut s’opposer à l’enregistrement, au niveau de l’Union, de la marque Laguiole dans le domaine, notamment, de la coutellerie et des couverts

Cour d'appel de Versailles, 6e chambre, 28 mars 2017

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel de Douai, chambre sociale, 30 septembre 2016

Pourvoi c/ Cour d'appel d'Amiens, chambre de l'instruction, 17 mars 2017

Cour d'appel de Pau, chambre 2, section 2, Tutelles, 22 mars 2017

Fahimian
Espace de liberté, sécurité et justice
Les autorités nationales peuvent refuser, pour des raisons de sécurité publique, de délivrer à une ressortissante iranienne diplômée d’une université frappée par des mesures restrictives un visa pour études dans un domaine sensible tel que la sécurité des technologies de l’information

La condamnation pour diffamation d’un responsable de publication d’un site de presse a constitué une ingérence injustifiée à son droit à la liberté d’expression garanti par la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme (art. 10), précise la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme par un arrêt du 16 mars 2017. 

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Rincon ((2017) 8 Cal. App 5th 1) is another case suited to comparative conflicts classes. It applies California’s restrictive regime on waiver of jury trial to a contract governed by New York law and with choice of court for New York.

‘Lois de police‘, also known as lois d’application immédiate or lois d’application nécessaire,  are included in the EU’s Rome I Regulation (on applicable law for contracts) in Article 9. (I reported earlier on their application in Unamar).

Jason Grinell has background to the case. Parties had made choice of law and choice of court in favour of New York. The link with New York was real (in EU terms: this was not a ‘purely domestic’ situation), inter alia because of the involvement of New York-based banks, parties being sophisticated commercial undertakings, and the contract having been negotiated in NY. However the real estate development is located at San Francisco, giving CAL a strong link to the case. Under CAL law,  parties generally cannot waive a jury trial before the commencement of a lawsuit unless they use one of two methods approved by the legislature. New York law does not have the same provision and choice of court clauses in favour of New York do not include reference to the only options available under CAL law.

In the case at issue, the boilerplate choice of court clause was set aside by the Court of Appeal. The lower court had denied a substantial enough Californian interest in the case – the CA disagreed. The relevant part of the judgment runs until p.22.

That comparative conflicts binder is filling out nicely.

Geert.

 

Le juge qui prononce une mesure de confiscation de tout ou partie d’un patrimoine doit motiver sa décision au regard de la gravité des faits, de la personnalité de son auteur et de sa situation personnelle, et apprécier le caractère proportionné de l’atteinte portée au droit de propriété de l’intéressé.

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