L’autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), en condamnant la banque pour des achats de droits préférentiels sans couverture raisonnablement prévisible, n’a violé ni le principe d’impartilité ni le principe de légalité des délits et des peines protégés par la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP are delighted to invite you to the launch of the special BREXIT issue of the Kluwer Journal of International Arbitration.
Professor Dr. Maxi Scherer, General Editor of the Journal of International Arbitration and Dr. Johannes Koepp, Special Issue Editor, will host a discussion with the authors on the content of the Special Issue.
Topics and speakers will include:
How Brexit Will Happen: A Brief Primer on EU Law and Constitutional Law Questions Raised by Brexit – Dr. Holger P. Hestermeyer
What Does Brexit Mean for the Brussels Regime? – Sara Masters QC & Belinda McRae
Brexit Consequences for London as a Premier Seat of International Dispute Resolution in Europe – Michael McIlwrath
Impact of Brexit on UK Competition Litigation and Arbitration –Gilbert Paul
Brexit and the Future of Intellectual Property Litigation and Arbitration – Annet van Hooft
Possible Ramifications of the UK’s EU Referendum on Intra- and Extra-EU BITs – Markus Burgstaller
The Special Issue journal launch will be followed by a champagne reception.
Ayse Acinikli et Ramazan Demir, avocats au barreau d’Istanbul, ont été libérés après 155 jours d’une détention arbitraire, poursuivis par un pouvoir qui tente de museler tous ceux qui prétendent défendre les libertés fondamentales dans ce pays plus que jamais en proie à une dérive totalitaire. Les confrères parisiens venus les aider racontent l’audience.
Une clause attributive de juridiction, qui, d’une part, est stipulée dans les conditions générales de fourniture du donneur d’ordre, mentionnées dans les instruments constatant les contrats entre ces parties et transmises lors de leur conclusion, et qui, d’autre part, désigne comme juridictions compétentes celles d’une ville d’un État membre, satisfait aux exigences de l’article 23 du règlement (CE) n° 44/2001 du 22 décembre 2000.
C-191/15 Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Amazon SarL is one of those spaghetti bowl cases, with plenty of secondary law having a say on the outcome. In the EU purchasing from Amazon (on whichever of its extensions) generally implies contracting with the Luxembourg company (Amazon EU) and agreeing to Luxembourg law as applicable law. Amazon has no registered office or establishment in Austria. VKI is a consumer organisation which acted on behalf of Austrian consumers, seeking an injunction prohibiting terms in Amazon’s GTCs (general terms and conditions), specifically those which did not comply with Austrian data protection law and which identified Luxembourg law as applicable law.
Rather than untangle the bowl for you here myself, I am happy to refer to masterchef Lorna Woods who can take you through the Court’s decision (with plenty of reference to Saugmandsgaard Øe’s Opinion of early June). After readers have consulted Lorna’s piece, let me point out that digital economy and applicable EU law is fast becoming a quagmire. Those among you who read Dutch can read a piece of mine on it here. Depending on whether one deals with customs legislation, data protection, or intellectual property, different triggers apply. And even in a pure data protection context, as prof Woods points out, there now seems to be a different trigger depending on whether one looks intra-EU (Weltimmo; Amazon) or extra-EU (Google Spain).
The divide between the many issues addressed by the Advocate General and the more narrow analysis by the CJEU, undoubtedly indeed announces further referral.
Geert.
(Handbook of) European Private International Law, 2016, Chapter 2, Heading 2.2.8.2.5.
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