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Part II Jurisdiction, 8 Special Jurisdiction

From: Civil Jurisdiction and Judgements in Europe: The Brussels I Regulation, the Lugano Convention, and the Hague Choice of Court Convention (2nd Edition)

Trevor Hartley

From: Oxford Legal Research Library (http://olrl.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 02 December 2023

8.01 In this chapter, we consider the rules of special jurisdiction contained in Article 7 of Brussels 2012 and Article 5 of Lugano 2007, rules that apply when the defendant is domiciled in another EU or Lugano State. These rules are all subject to the exceptions referred to at the end of the chapter. 8.02 The discussion below will follow the structure of Article 7 of Brussels 2012. This is based mainly on different causes of action—contract and tort, for example. However, the group of claims often referred to under the rubric of ‘quasi-contract’ fall, under EU...
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