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Preliminary Material
Preface to the Fifteenth Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Summary Contents
Contents
Selected Bibliography
Table of Statutes
Introductory Note
Statutes
Statutory Instruments
EU Legislation
European Conventions/Resolutions
International Conventions
Bilateral Treaties
National Legislation of Other Countries
Australia
Belgium
Canada
France
Germany
India
Iraq
Italy
Netherlands
New Zealand
United States
Table of Cases
Full Alphabetical List of Cases
Court of Justice of the European Union Cases, by year and Number
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Main Text
Part I Introduction
Preliminary Material
1 Definition, Nature and Scope of Private International Law
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Space and Time
(a) Space
(b) Time
3 Scope of Private International Law
(a) Jurisdiction
(b) Recognition
(c) Choice of law
4 Meaning of “Foreign Law”
5 International Variety of Private International Law Rules
6 Avoiding Conflicts
(a) Unification of internal laws
(b) Unification of private international law
(i) Europeanisation of private international law
(ii) Impact of European Convention on Human Rights on private international law
7 The Name of the Subject
2 Historical Development and Current Theories
Preliminary Material
1 Development of English Private International Law
(a) Early history
(b) Later development
2 Modern Theories and Developments
(a) Theory of acquired rights
(b) Local law theory
(c) The American revolution
(i) Two general approaches
(a) Rule selection or jurisdiction selection?
(b) True and false conflicts
(ii) Rule-selection techniques
(a) Governmental interest analysis
(b) Comparative impairment
(c) Principles of preference
(d) Interpretation of forum policy
(e) Choice of law factors
(iii) Impact of the revolution
(iv) Post-revolutionary developments
(d) The European (r)evolution
(e) The English approach
Part II Preliminary Topics
Preliminary Material
3 Classification
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Classification of the Cause of Action
(a) Meaning of classification
(b) Difficulties
(c) Basis on which classification is made
3 Classification of a Rule of Law
(a) The problem described
(b) Basis on which classification is made
(i) Classification of an English rule
(ii) Classification of a foreign rule
(a) Parental consent to marry
(b) Bona vacantia
(c) Other examples
4 The Incidental Question
Preliminary Material
1 What is an Incidental Question?
2 The Elements of an Incidental Question
3 The Problem Illustrated
4 A Way Forward
5 Dépeçage
5 Renvoi
Preliminary Material
1 The Problem Stated
2 Possible Solutions
(a) Apply internal law only
(b) Doctrine of single renvoi
(c) Doctrine of total renvoi
(i) The doctrine stated
(ii) Objections to the doctrine
(a) The total renvoi doctrine does not necessarily ensure uniform decisions
(b) The total renvoi doctrine signifies the virtual capitulation of the English rules for choice of law
(c) The total renvoi doctrine is difficult to apply
(iii) Analysis of decisions supporting the doctrine
3 Scope of the Application of Renvoi
(a) Renvoi inapplicable in many cases
(b) Issues to which renvoi may apply
(i) Validity of bequests
(ii) Claims to foreign immovables
(iii) Some cases of movables
(iv) Family law issues
6 Substance and Procedure
Preliminary Material
1 Difference Between Substance and Procedure
(a) Procedure governed by the law of the forum
(b) Importance of distinction between substance and procedure
(c) How is the distinction to be made?
2 Particular Issues
(a) The time within which an action must be brought
(b) Evidence
(i) Evidence a matter for the law of the forum
(ii) Distinction between interpretation and proof of document
(iii) Taking of evidence within the EU: Council Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001
(a) Evidence by means of request
(b) Direct taking of evidence by the requesting court
(iv) Taking of evidence outside the EU: Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975; Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980
(v) Interpretation distinguished from evidence
(vi) Presumptions and burden of proof
(c) Parties
(i) The proper claimant
(ii) The appropriate defendant
(d) Priorities
(e) The nature and extent of the remedy
(f) Damages
(i) Remoteness of damage
(ii) Heads of damage
(iii) Measure of damages
(iv) Payment of interest
(g) Judgments in foreign currency
(i) Old rule: judgment must be in sterling
(ii) Miliangos v George Frank (Textiles) Ltd
(iii) Claims to which the Miliangos rule applies
(iv) Interest
(v) Procedural nature of the Miliangos rule
(vi) Date for conversion of currency
(vii) In what currency should the court give judgment?
(h) Execution
7 The Proof of Foreign Law
Preliminary Material
1 Foreign Law: A Question of Fact
2 How Foreign Law is Proved
3 Witnesses Who Can Prove Foreign Law
4 The Role of the Court
8 Exclusion of Foreign Law
Preliminary Material
1 Foreign Revenue, Penal and Other Public Laws
(a) Foreign revenue laws
(i) The prohibition on enforcement
(ii) Indirect enforcement
(iii) Recognition of a foreign revenue law
(b) Foreign penal laws
(i) The meaning of a penalty
(ii) Examples of the prohibition on indirect enforcement of a penal law
(iii) Characterisation of the foreign law/right of action
(iv) Recognition of foreign penal laws
(c) Other foreign public laws
(d) Effect of European Union private international law
2 Foreign Expropriatory Legislation
(a) Property within the foreign jurisdiction at time of decree
(b) Property outside the foreign jurisdiction at time of decree
(c) Requisition of property
3 Foreign Laws Repugnant to English Public Policy
(a) General principles
(b) Summary of cases where distinctive policy is affected
(i) Where the basic principles of English justice and fairness are affronted
(ii) Where the English conceptions of morality are infringed
(iii) Where a transaction prejudices the interests of the United Kingdom or its good relations with foreign powers
(iv) A gross infringement of human rights
(v) A fundamental breach of international law
(c) Cases involving a foreign status
(d) Recognition of foreign divorces, etc
(e) Effect of European Union private international law
4 Mandatory Rules
9 Domicile, Nationality and Residence
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 General Rules
3 The Acquisition of a Domicile of Choice
(a) Residence
(b) The requisite intention
(i) The nature of the intention
(a) An intention to reside permanently
(b) Unlikely contingencies
(c) The former attitude towards contingencies: Winans v A-G, Ramsay v Liverpool Royal Infirmary
(d) Evaluation of judicial statements and decisions
(e) Time at which intention is relevant
(f) A bona fide intention
(ii) Evidence of intention
(c) Voluntary residence
(i) Prisoners
(ii) Refugees/persons seeking asylum
(iii) Fugitives from justice
(iv) Fugitive debtors
(v) Invalids
(vi) Miscellaneous cases
(d) Precarious residence
(e) The burden of proof
(f) Change of domicile and change of nationality
4 Domicile of Origin and Domicile of Choice Contrasted
(a) Tenacity of the domicile of origin
(b) Abandonment of an existing domicile
(c) Revival of the domicile of origin
5 Domicile of Dependent Persons
(a) Children
(i) A child’s domicile of origin
(ii) When an independent domicile can be acquired
(iii) The effect of a change in the parent’s domicile
(iv) Criticism of the existing law
(b) Mental disorder or mental incapacity
(c) Capacity to acquire a domicile
6 Domicile of Married Women
(a) The abolition of dependency
(b) Transitional problems
7 Domicile and Nationality
(a) Nationality and domicile contrasted
(i) The merits and demerits of domicile
(ii) The merits and demerits of nationality
8 Concepts of Residence
(a) Ordinary residence
(b) Habitual residence
(i) Acquisition of a new habitual residence
(a) Residence
(b) A period of time
(c) The role of intentions when determining a factual concept
(d) Voluntarily
(ii) Abandonment
(iii) Children
(iv) Does habitual residence have different meanings in different contexts?
Part III Jurisdiction, Foreign Judgments and Awards
Preliminary Material
10 Jurisdiction of the English Courts—An Introduction
Preliminary Material
1 Jurisdiction Under the Brussels/Lugano System
(a) The Brussels I Regulation and Brussels I Recast
(b) The EC/Denmark Agreement
(c) The Brussels Convention
(d) The Lugano Convention
2 Jurisdiction Under the Modified Regulation
3 Jurisdiction Under the Traditional Rules
(a) Whether the English courts have power to hear the case
(b) Whether the court will decline jurisdiction or stay the proceedings, or restrain foreign proceedings
(c) Whether there is a limitation upon the exercise of jurisdiction
4 The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
11 Jurisdiction Under the Brussels/Lugano System
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 History and Interpretation
(a) Emergence of the Brussels/Lugano System and the Modified Regulation
(b) Interpretation of the Brussels/Lugano System and the Modified Regulation
(i) Referrals to the Court of Justice
(ii) The principles and decisions laid down by the Court of Justice in respect of the Brussels I Regulation and Brussels Convention
(iii) Aids to interpretation
3 The Brussels I Recast
(a) A special definition of domicile
(i) Natural persons
(ii) Companies and other legal persons; trusts
(b) When does the Brussels I Recast apply?
(i) The matter must be within the scope of the Brussels I Recast
(a) Civil and commercial matters
(b) Exclusions
(i) “The status or legal capacity of natural persons, rights in property arising out of a matrimonial relationship or out of a relationship deemed by the law applicable to such relationship to have comparable effects to marriage”
(ii) “Bankruptcy, proceedings relating to the winding up of insolvent companies or other legal persons, judicial arrangements, compositions and analogous proceedings”
(iii) “Social Security”
(iv) “Arbitration”
(v) “Maintenance obligations arising from a family relationship, parentage, marriage or affinity”
(vi) “Wills and succession, including maintenance obligations arising by reason of death”
(ii) Whether the defendant is domiciled in a Member State
(a) Where the defendant is domiciled in a Member State
(b) The defendant is not domiciled in a Member State
(c) The exceptions
(d) Claimant’s domicile
(c) Bases of jurisdiction
(i) Exclusive subject-matter jurisdiction
(a) Rights in rem
(b) Tenancies
(c) Short-term holiday lets
(ii) Prorogation of jurisdiction
(a) Submission to the forum
(b) An agreement on jurisdiction
(i) The domicile of the parties
(ii) The requirements in relation to the agreement
(a) The parties must have agreed that a court or the courts of a Member State are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which have arisen or which may arise in connection with a particular legal relationship
An agreement
Conferring jurisdiction
Non-exclusive jurisdiction agreements
On the courts of a Member State
Allocating jurisdiction within the United Kingdom
Conferring jurisdiction on the courts of a non-Member State
(b) The form of the agreement
In writing or evidenced in writing
In a form which accords with practices which the parties have established between themselves
In international trade or commerce, in a form which accords with a usage of which the parties are or ought to have been aware and which in such trade or commerce is widely known to, and regularly observed by, parties to contracts of the type involved in the particular trade or commerce concerned
(iii) Third parties and jurisdiction agreements
(iv) Limitations on the effectiveness of the agreement
(iii) General jurisdiction
(iv) Special jurisdiction
(a) Special jurisdiction under Article 7
(i) What are matters relating to a contract?
A contractual relationship
An identifiable obligation
An obligation that is freely assumed
An identifiable place of performance
(ii) Disputes relating to the existence of the agreement
(iii) The general rule
The obligation in question
The place of performance of the obligation in question
(iv) Special rule for sales and services contracts
The scope of Article 7(1)(b)
The place in a Member State where, under the contract, the goods were delivered or should have been delivered
The place in a Member State where, under the contract, the services were provided or should have been provided
Displacement where it is otherwise agreed
Cases falling outside the scope of Article 7(1)(b)
(i) What are matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict?
An action which seeks to establish the liability of a defendant
A harmful event
(ii) Concurrent actions in tort and contract
(iii) Threatened wrongs
(iv) Where is the place where the harmful event occurred?
The place of the event giving rise to the damage
The place where the damage occurred
(i) A branch, agency or other establishment
(ii) The dispute must arise out of the operations of the branch, agency or other establishment
(b) Special jurisdiction under Article 8
(c) Special jurisdiction under Article 9
(v) Jurisdiction in matters relating to insurance
Scope of Section 3 of Chapter II
Jurisdictional rules in Section 3 of Chapter II
Jurisdiction Agreements and Submission
(vi) Jurisdiction over consumer contracts
Scope of Section 4 of Chapter II
Jurisdictional Rules in Section 4 of Chapter II
Jurisdiction Agreements and Submission
(vii) Jurisdiction over individual contracts of employment
Scope of Section 5 of Chapter II
Jurisdictional Rules in Section 5 of Chapter II
Jurisdiction Agreements and Submission
(d) Provisional measures
(i) Jurisdiction as to the substance
(ii) Article 35 of the Brussels I Recast
(iii) Section 25 of the 1982 Act
(e) Service and notice of the claim
(i) Service of the claim form
(ii) Safeguarding the rights of the defendant
(a) The duty to examine jurisdiction where the defendant does not enter an appearance
(b) Minimum standards in relation to notice
(f) Stays and parallel proceedings
4 The Brussels Convention
5 The Lugano Convention
(a) When does the Lugano Convention apply?
(b) The terms of the Lugano Convention
(c) Stays of action
6 The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
7 Allocating Jurisdiction Within the United Kingdom: The Modified Regulation
(a) When does the Modified Regulation apply?
(i) The situation must concern allocation of jurisdiction within the United Kingdom
(ii) The subject matter of the proceedings must be within the scope of the Brussels I Recast as determined by Article 1
(iii) The defendant must be domiciled in the United Kingdom or the proceedings must be of a kind mentioned in Article 24 of the Brussels I Recast
(b) The terms of the Modified Regulation
(i) The modifications
(c) Stays of action
(i) Lis pendens
(ii) A general discretion to stay
12 The Competence of the English Courts Under—The Traditional Rules
Preliminary Material
1 Actions in Personam
(a) Service of a claim form on a defendant present within the jurisdiction
(i) Individuals
(ii) Partnerships
(iii) Companies
(a) The Companies Act 2006
(i) A company registered in the United Kingdom
(ii) An overseas company
(b) Part 6 of the Civil Procedure Rules
(b) Submission to the jurisdiction
(c) Service of a claim form on a defendant out of the jurisdiction
(i) Service of a claim form out of the jurisdiction with the permission of the court
(a) The grounds of Practice Direction 6B
(i) General grounds
(ii) Claims for interim remedies
(iii) Claims in relation to contracts
(iv) Claims in tort
Damage was sustained, or will be sustained, within the jurisdiction
An act committed within the jurisdiction
Exercise of the discretion
Libel tourism and the Defamation Act 2013
(v) Enforcement
(vi) Claims about property within the jurisdiction
A claim that relates to property
Property
Wholly or principally located within the jurisdiction
Exercise of the discretion
(vii) Claims about trusts, etc (including restitution)
(viii) Claims by HM Revenue and Customs
(ix) Claim for costs order in favour of or against third parties
(x) Admiralty claims
(xi) Claims under various enactments
(xii) Claims for breach of confidence or misuse of private information
(xiii) The interaction of the different grounds of Practice Direction 6B, paragraph 3.1
(b) A reasonable prospect of success
(c) The exercise of the discretion under rule 6.36
(i) The basic principle
(ii) The appropriate forum
Consolidation of claims and prior foreign proceedings
The applicable law
Jurisdiction agreements
(iii) Justice and juridical advantage
(iv) Negative declarations
(v) An exorbitant basis of jurisdiction?
(vi) The significance of the particular ground of Practice Direction 6B
(vii) The operation of the principles
(ii) Service of a claim form out of the jurisdiction without the permission of the court
(iii) Service of the claim form in practice
(d) Are there other bases of competence?
2 Actions In Rem
(a) An action against a ship as defendant
(b) An action against a ship other than the primary ship
(c) A stay of proceedings which is subject to conditions
(d) The effect of the Brussels/Lugano system
(i) The basis of jurisdiction
(ii) Stays of action
13 Stays and the Management of Parallel Proceedings
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Stays of English Proceedings Under the Common Law
(a) Forum non conveniens
(i) The principles on which the discretion to stay is exercised
(a) The basic principle
(b) The two-stage inquiry
(i) The first stage: another available forum which is clearly more appropriate
Another available forum
Clearly more appropriate
Cases where there is no clearly more appropriate forum abroad
(ii) The second stage: the requirements of justice
Treatment of the advantage to the claimant
The weight to be attached to the advantage to the claimant
(c) Public interest factors
(ii) Multiplicity of proceedings
(b) Foreign jurisdiction clauses
(i) The exercise of the discretion to stay
(ii) Reliance on, escape from, exclusive jurisdiction clauses
(a) When can a defendant rely on an exclusive jurisdiction clause?
(b) When can a claimant escape from an exclusive jurisdiction clause?
(c) Arbitration agreements
(d) Stays pending the determination of proceedings abroad
3 Restraining Foreign Proceedings Under the Common Law: The Anti-Suit Injunction
(a) Underlying principles
(b) Categorisation of the cases
(i) Where the conduct of the party to be restrained is unconscionable
(a) Where the pursuit of proceedings abroad is vexatious or oppressive
(i) There are two or more available fora for trial (one of which is England)
(ii) Trial is available in alternative fora abroad (but not in England)
(b) Other instances of unconscionable conduct
(i) Interference with the due process of the court
(ii) Single forum cases
(ii) The bringing of the proceedings abroad would be in breach of an agreement
(a) Breach of an exclusive jurisdiction agreement
(b) Breach of an arbitration agreement
4 Parallel Proceedings Under the Brussels I Recast: Lis Pendens and Related Actions
(a) Proceedings in another Member State
(i) Lis pendens
(a) Same cause of action
(b) Same parties
(c) Identifying when a court is seised
(d) Application when jurisdiction is disputed
(e) Application in exclusive jurisdiction cases
(i) Court second seised claims exclusive jurisdiction under Article 25
(ii) Court second seised claims exclusive jurisdiction under Article 24
(ii) Related actions
(b) Proceedings in a non-Member State
5 Stays of Proceedings Under the Brussels I Recast
(a) A discretion to stay proceedings in the Brussels I Recast itself?
(b) Can the traditional English doctrine of forum non conveniens be used?
(i) The Brussels I Recast is inapplicable
(ii) The Brussels I Recast is applicable and the bases of jurisdiction set out therein come into play
(a) The English authorities
(b) The decision of the Court of Justice in Owusu v Jackson
(c) Altering the facts
(iii) The Brussels I Recast is applicable but refers the case to national rules of jurisdiction
(a) Alternative forum is a Member State
(b) Alternative forum is a non-Member State
(iv) The knock on effect of Owusu in multi-defendant cases
(v) Article 71 of the Brussels I Recast applies
(c) Is there a residual discretion?
(d) Does the Brussels I Recast have “reflexive” effects?
6 Restraining Foreign Proceedings and the Brussels I Recast
(a) A discretion to restrain foreign proceedings in the Brussels I Recast itself?
(b) Can the traditional English power to restrain foreign proceedings be used?
(i) Restraining proceedings in a Member State
(a) The English case law
(b) The effect of Erich Gasser GmbH v Misat Srl
(c) Turner v Grovit
(d) Going beyond cases of bad faith
(e) Breach of an arbitration agreement
(f) What if jurisdiction is not founded on a Brussels I Recast ground?
(g) An injunction preventing the commencement or continuation of proceedings
(ii) Restraining proceedings in a non-Member State
14 Limitations on Jurisdiction
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Jurisdiction in Respect of Foreign Property
(a) Foreign immovables
(i) The common law limitation
(a) The exclusionary rule
(b) Exceptions to the exclusionary rule
(i) Action founded on a personal obligation
Contracts relating to foreign land
Fraud and other unconscionable conduct
Fiduciary relationship
Mortgage and foreclosure
Limitations on the doctrine
Concluding remarks on the doctrine
(ii) Questions affecting foreign land arising incidentally in an English action
(c) Damages for trespass to foreign land
(ii) The limitation under the Brussels/Lugano system
(b) Foreign intellectual property rights
3 Jurisdiction Over the Parties
(a) Persons who cannot invoke the jurisdiction
(b) Persons who may claim exemption from the jurisdiction
(i) Sovereigns and sovereign states
(a) Scope of the State Immunity Act 1978
(b) State immunity and human rights
(c) Exceptions from immunity
(d) Indirect impleading
(e) Procedural and other miscellaneous matters in the 1978 Act
(ii) Ambassadors and other diplomatic officers
(a) The persons entitled to privileges
(i) Diplomatic agents
(ii) Members of the administrative and technical staff
(iii) Members of the service staff
(b) Cessation of immunities and privileges
(c) Waiver of privileges
(d) Restriction of privileges and immunities
(e) International organizations
(f) Immunity of foreign sovereigns
(g) Consular immunities
(iii) The Brussels/Lugano system
4 Statutory Limitations on Jurisdiction
15 Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards in England—An Introduction
Preliminary Material
1 The Effect Given to Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards
2 The Different Regimes Governing Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
(a) Judgments from outside the European Union and EFTA
(b) Judgments from a European Union or EFTA State
(c) Judgments from other parts of the United Kingdom
(d) Insolvency
(e) Family law
(f) Wills and successions
3 Foreign Arbitral Awards
16 Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments—The Traditional Rules
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
(a) The theory underlying recognition and enforcement at common law
(b) Enforcement under statute
2 Recognition and Enforcement at Common Law
(a) Jurisdiction of the foreign court: judgments in personam
(i) Residence and presence of defendant in the foreign country at the time of the suit
(a) An individual defendant
(b) A corporate defendant
(c) Residence and presence and non-unitary states
(ii) Submission to the foreign court
(a) Submission by virtue of being the claimant or counterclaimant in the foreign action
(b) Agreements to submit
(c) Submission by voluntary appearance
(i) An appearance to fight on the merits
(ii) An appearance to protest against jurisdiction
(iii) Arguing in the alternative
(iv) Appeals against judgments in default
(v) Taking procedural steps in the foreign country
(iii) Nothing else founds jurisdiction
(a) Political nationality
(b) Domicile
(c) Locality of cause of action
(d) Choice of governing law
(e) Possession of property
(f) Foreign judgment based on service out of the jurisdiction
(iv) The real and substantial connection test
(b) Judgments in rem
(i) The definition of a judgment in rem
(a) The subject matter of a judgment in rem
(b) The effect of a judgment in rem
(ii) Recognition of judgments in rem: the jurisdictional requirements
(a) Judgments relating to immovables
(b) Judgments relating to movables
(i) Judgments that immediately vest the property in a certain person as against the whole world
(ii) Judgments that decree the sale of a thing in satisfaction of a claim against the thing itself
(iii) Judgments that order movables to be sold by way of administration
(iv) Enforcement of judgments in rem
(c) Final and conclusive judgment
(d) Enforcement of foreign judgments in personam
(i) Enforcement by institution of fresh legal proceedings
(ii) Judgment for a fixed sum
(iii) Non-enforcement of foreign revenue, penal or other public laws
(iv) Non-enforcement of judgments for multiple damages under the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980
(e) Recognition of foreign judgments
(i) Estoppel per rem judicatam
(a) Estoppel as a defence
(b) Cause of action and issue estoppel
(c) Prerequisites of estoppel
(ii) The rule in Henderson v Henderson
(iii) Abuse of process
(iv) Judgments in personam and in rem
(f) Defences to recognition and enforcement
(i) Conclusiveness of foreign judgments
(a) Mistakes by the foreign court
(i) Mistakes as to facts or as to law
(ii) A mistake as to its own jurisdiction
(iii) A procedural mistake
(b) Raising defences available abroad
(ii) Foreign judgment obtained by fraud
(a) Types of fraud
(b) Fraud and going into the merits of the foreign judgment
(i) Fraud has been raised abroad
The authorities
Ways of avoiding the Abouloff rule
(ii) Fraud has not been raised abroad
(iii) Foreign judgment contrary to public policy
(a) Application of general principles of public policy to recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments
(b) Using human rights law to cast light on the public policy defence
(iv) Foreign judgment contrary to natural justice
(a) The meaning of contrary to natural justice
(b) Due notice and proper opportunity to be heard
(c) Substantial justice
(d) The availability of a remedy in the judgment-granting country
(e) The relationship with human rights law
(v) A breach of Article 6 of the ECHR
(vi) A foreign judgment on a matter previously determined by an English court
(vii) A foreign judgment on a matter previously determined by a court in another foreign state
(viii) An overseas judgment given in proceedings brought in breach of agreement for settlement of disputes
(a) The scope of the section
(b) The three requirements for the operation of section 32
(c) Decisions of foreign courts in respect of the above matters
3 Direct Enforcement of Foreign Judgments By Statute
(a) The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982: Recognition and enforcement within the United Kingdom
(i) Enforcement of United Kingdom judgments in other parts of the United Kingdom
(a) Enforcement of money provisions
(b) Enforcement of non-money provisions
(ii) Recognition of United Kingdom judgments in other parts of the United Kingdom
(iii) The effect of a judgment given in another part of the United Kingdom
(b) Administration of Justice Act 1920
(i) When registration of Commonwealth judgments is allowed
(ii) When registration is not allowed
(iii) The effect of registration
(iv) Reciprocity
(c) Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933
(i) The object of the Act
(ii) The countries to which the provisions of the Act are extended
(iii) Prerequisites of registration
(iv) Setting aside of registration
(a) When registration must be set aside
(i) Lack of jurisdiction
Bases of jurisdiction in personam
(1) Residence
(2) Submission
(3) Jurisdiction based on having a place of business
Limitations on jurisdiction
Special statutory grounds of jurisdiction
Statutory grounds of jurisdiction are exclusive
Meaning of action in personam
Jurisdiction over action in rem
(ii) Other circumstances where registration must be set aside
(b) When registration may be set aside
(v) The effect of a foreign judgment
(a) A judgment which has been registered
(b) A judgment which is capable of registration
(vi) Conclusiveness of foreign judgments
(a) An exception to the conclusiveness rule
(b) A prerequisite for recognition: the judgment must have been given on the merits
(c) The scope of section 8: matrimonial causes
(d) European Union judgments
(e) Judgments against states
(i) Judgments against the United Kingdom: The State Immunity Act 1978
(ii) Judgments against other states: the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982
(f) The Brussels and Lugano Conventions
(g) The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005
4 Inter-Relation of the Common Law and Statutes
5 The Recast of the Brussels I Regulation
17 Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments Under the Brussels/Lugano System
Preliminary Material
1 The Brussels I Recast
(a) Introduction
(b) When do the rules on recognition and enforcement under the Brussels I Recast apply?
(i) Regardless of which rules on jurisdiction have been applied
(ii) There must be a judgment given in a Member State
(iii) In respect of a matter coming within the material scope of the Recast
(iv) Special requirements concerning provisional, including protective, measures
(c) Problems of interpretation
(d) Recognition
(e) Enforcement
(i) Policy matters
(a) A rapid and simple procedure
(b) Safeguarding the interests of the party seeking enforcement
(c) Safeguarding the interests of the party against whom enforcement is sought
(ii) Procedural rules
(a) Enforcement
(b) Application for refusal of enforcement
(f) Grounds for refusal of recognition and enforcement
(i) Grounds under Article 45
(a) Public policy
(i) Whose definition of the concept of public policy is to be applied?
(ii) What public policy includes
(iii) What public policy does not include
(b) Natural justice
(i) The interaction with jurisdictional provisions on natural justice
(ii) Establishing a lack of natural justice
(a) The judgment was given in default of appearance
(b) The defendant was not served
(c) With the document which instituted the proceedings or with an equivalent document
(d) In sufficient time and in such a way as to enable him to arrange for his defence
In sufficient time
And in such a way
(e) Unless the defendant failed to commence proceedings to challenge the judgment when it was possible for him to do so
(iii) Interaction with the public policy defence
(c) A conflict with a judgment given in the Member State addressed
(d) A conflicting judgment given in another Member State or in a third State
(e) The judgment conflicts with Sections 3, 4, 5 or 6 of Chapter II of the Recast
(ii) The case is provided for under Article 72
(g) Non-grounds for refusal of recognition and enforcement
(i) Other grounds for refusal of recognition are not available
(a) A review of jurisdiction
(b) A review of substance
(ii) The special problem where there is a breach of an agreement for the settlement of disputes
(a) A breach of an agreement providing for trial in a particular state
(b) A breach of an agreement to go to arbitration
(h) Appeals in the Member State of origin
(i) Articles 39 and 44(2)
(ii) Articles 38(a) and 51
(a) An ordinary appeal
(b) A discretionary power
(i) The estoppel effect of a judgment obtained in a Member State
(j) Foreign reaction
(i) The automatic recognition of judgments without jurisdictional safeguards
(ii) Article 59 of the Brussels Convention
(k) The impact of the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements
2 The EC/Denmark Agreement
3 The Brussels Convention
4 The Lugano Convention
(a) When do the rules on recognition and enforcement under the Lugano Convention apply?
(b) Differences between the Lugano Convention and the Brussels I Recast
5 The European Enforcement Order Regulation
(a) Subject matter, scope and definitions
(b) European enforcement order
(c) Minimum standards for uncontested claims procedures
(d) Enforcement
6 The European Order for Payment Procedure Regulation
(a) Scope and definitions
(b) The European order for payment procedure
(c) Recognition and enforcement in other Member States
7 The European Small Claims Procedure Regulation
(a) Scope and definitions
(b) The European small claims procedure
(c) Recognition and enforcement in other Member States
18 Foreign Arbitral Awards
Preliminary Material
1 Enforcement at Common Law
2 Enforcement Under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982
3 Enforcement Under the Arbitration Act 1950
4 Enforcement Under the Arbitration Act 1996
5 Enforcement Under the Administration of Justice Act 1920 and the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933
6 Enforcement Under the Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Act 1966
Part IV The Law of Obligations
Preliminary Material
19 Contracts
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
(a) The nature of the problem
(b) Various solutions to the problem
2 The Rome Convention
(a) The history and purpose of the Convention
(b) The Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990
3 The Rome I Regulation
(a) Preliminary remarks
(i) History
(ii) Interpretation
(a) Referrals to the Court of Justice
(b) The principles and decisions laid down by the Court of Justice
(c) The principle of uniform and autonomous interpretation
(d) Aids to interpretation
(i) The Giuliano and Lagarde Report and other legislative materials
(ii) The decisions of other European courts
(iii) Texts in other languages
(iv) The Brussels I and Rome II Regulations
(v) The traditional common law rules
(b) When does the Regulation apply?
(i) The scope of the Regulation
(a) Contractual obligations in situations involving a conflict of laws
(i) A contractual obligation
(ii) A conflict of laws
(b) Exclusions
(i) Questions involving the status or legal capacity of natural persons, without prejudice to Article 13
(ii) Obligations arising out of family or succession law
(iii) Obligations arising under bills of exchange, cheques and promissory notes and other negotiable instruments to the extent that the obligations under such other negotiable instruments arise out of their negotiable character
(iv) Arbitration agreements and agreements on the choice of court
(v) Questions governed by the law of companies and other bodies, corporate or unincorporated, such as the creation, by registration or otherwise, legal capacity, internal organisation or winding up of companies and other bodies, corporate or unincorporated, and the personal liability of officers and members as such for the obligations of the company or body
(vi) The question whether an agent is able to bind a principal, or an organ to bind a company or other body corporate or unincorporated, in relation to a third party
(vii) The constitution of trusts and the relationship between settlors, trustees and beneficiaries
(viii) Obligations arising out of dealings prior to the conclusion of a contract
(ix) Insurance
(x) Evidence and procedure, without prejudice to Article 18
(ii) The universal application of the Regulation
(c) The applicable law
(i) The law is chosen by the parties
(a) Freedom of choice
(i) The basic principle
(ii) Chosen law may be unconnected with the contract
(iii) Dépeçage
(iv) Timing of choice
(v) Variation of choice
(vi) Choice and the English rules on pleading and proof of foreign law
(b) Limitations on choice
(i) Article 3(3)
(ii) Article 3(4): Mandatory rules of EU law
(iii) Other provisions on mandatory rules, public policy
(iv) Logically consistent choices
(v) A meaningless choice of law
(vi) Choice of the law of a country
(vii) A “floating” applicable law
(c) An express choice; mere incorporation
(d) An inferred choice
(i) Drawing the inference
The terms of the contract
The circumstances of the case
(ii) Conflicting inferences
(e) Consent to choice
(ii) The applicable law in the absence of choice
(a) The applicable law in the absence of choice under the common law
(b) The applicable law in the absence of choice under the Rome Convention
(c) The applicable law in the absence of choice under the Rome I Regulation
(i) Article 4(1): Fixed rules for specific contracts
Sale of goods
Provision of services
Immovable property
Franchise and distribution contracts
Auction sales and multilateral trading systems
Intellectual property rights
Contracts of carriage
(ii) Article 4(2): The characteristic performance test
The concept of characteristic performance
Identifying the characteristic performance
Examples
Criticism
(iii) Article 4(4): Closest connection as a residual rule
(iv) Article 4(3): Escape clause
The escape clause under the Rome Convention
The escape clause under the Rome Regulation
(v) Habitual residence
(vi) Severing the contract
(iii) Special contracts
(a) Consumer and employment contracts
(b) Contracts of carriage and insurance contracts
(d) Limitations on the dominance of the applicable law
(i) Mandatory rules
(a) The background to the concept
(b) The definition of (overriding) mandatory rules
(i) The definition of mandatory rules under the Rome Convention
(ii) The definition under the Rome I Regulation
(c) The mandatory rules of the forum
(i) Mandatory statutory rules
The statute has no express provision on its overriding effect but has a provision on its territorial scope
The statute has no express provision as to its overriding effect and no provision on its territorial scope
(ii) Mandatory common law rules
(iii) Mandatory rules in EU legislation and international conventions
(iv) The effect given to mandatory rules under Article 9(2)
(d) The mandatory rules of other countries
(ii) Public policy
(e) Particular issues
(i) Consent and material validity
(a) What is meant by consent and material validity?
(b) The putative applicable law
(c) The safeguard in relation to consent
(ii) Formal validity
(a) What is meant by formal validity?
(b) The general rules
(i) The contract is concluded between persons who are in the same country
(ii) The contract is concluded between persons who are not in the same country
(iii) Acts intended to have legal effect
(c) The special rules for particular contracts
(i) Consumer contracts
(ii) Immovable property
(iii) Capacity
(a) The traditional common law rules
(b) Article 13
(iv) Scope of the applicable law
(a) Interpretation
(b) Performance
(i) What is encompassed within the concept of performance?
(ii) The manner of performance: a special rule
The definitional question
The question of substance
(c) Within the limits of the powers conferred on the court by its procedural law, the consequences of a total or partial breach of obligations, including the assessment of damages in so far as it is governed by rules of law
(i) What is encompassed within the concept of consequences of breach?
(ii) Assessment of damages
(iii) The procedural limitation
(d) The various ways of extinguishing obligations, and prescription and limitation of actions
(e) The consequences of nullity of the contract
(v) The special problem of illegality
(a) An agreement to break a foreign law
(b) Illegality by the law of the foreign place of performance in cases where the applicable law is English law
(c) Illegality by the law of the foreign place of performance in cases where the applicable law is foreign
(d) Illegality by the law of the English place of performance in cases where the applicable law is foreign
(vi) Set-off under the Rome I Regulation
(f) Relationship with other provisions of EU law
(g) Relationship with other conventions
20 Non-Contractual Obligations
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
(a) Torts
(b) Restitution
(c) Equitable obligations
2 The Rome II Regulation
(a) Preliminary remarks
(i) The history, legal basis and justification of the Regulation
(a) History of the Regulation
(b) The legal basis and justification of the Regulation
(ii) Interpretation
(a) Referrals to the Court of Justice
(b) The principles and decisions laid down by the Court of Justice
(c) Aids to interpretation
(i) Recitals
(ii) The Explanatory Memorandum
(iii) Earlier influences
(iv) The Brussels I Regulation/Recast and the instruments dealing with the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I Regulation)
(v) The views of the European Parliament
(b) When does the Regulation apply?
(i) The scope of the Regulation
(a) Application, in situations involving a conflict of laws, to non-contractual obligations in civil and commercial matters
(i) A conflict of laws
(ii) Non-contractual obligations
Non-contractual
Obligations
Statutory obligations
Non-contractual obligations and the scope of the choice of law rules
Concurrent liability
(iii) A civil and commercial matter
(b) Exclusions
(i) The exclusion of certain non-contractual obligations
(a) non-contractual obligations arising out of family relationships and relationships deemed by the law applicable to such relationships to have comparable effects including maintenance obligations
(b) non-contractual obligations arising out of matrimonial property regimes, property regimes of relationships deemed by the law applicable to such relationships to have comparable effects to marriage, and wills and succession
(c) non-contractual obligations arising under bills of exchange, cheques and promissory notes and other negotiable instruments to the extent that the obligations under such other negotiable instruments arise out of their negotiable character
(d) non-contractual obligations arising out of the law of companies and other bodies corporate or unincorporated regarding matters such as the creation, by registration or otherwise, legal capacity, internal organisation or winding up of companies and other bodies corporate or unincorporated, the personal liability of officers and members as such for the obligations of the company or body and the personal liability of auditors to a company or its members in the statutory audits of accounting documents
(e) non-contractual obligations arising out of the relations between the settlors, trustees and beneficiaries of a trust created voluntarily
(f) non-contractual obligations arising out of nuclear damage
(g) non-contractual obligations arising out of violations of privacy and rights relating to personality, including defamation
(ii) Evidence and procedure, without prejudice to Articles 21 and 22
Evidence
Procedure
(ii) The universal application of the Regulation
(c) The applicable law: preliminary remarks
(i) Exclusion of renvoi
(ii) Definition of habitual residence
(iii) Definition of damage
(iv) Proof of foreign law
(d) The applicable law for torts/delicts
(i) The scope of Chapter II
(a) What is covered
(b) What is not covered
(i) Tort or unjust enrichment
Equitable obligations
Contribution and indemnity
(ii) Tort or culpa in contrahendo
(iii) Tort or property
(ii) The structure of Chapter II
(iii) Article 4: General rule
(a) The scope of Article 4
(b) Article 4(1): a place of damage general principle
(i) Unless otherwise provided for
(ii) The definitional problem and adoption of a place of damage rule
(iii) Identification of the country in which the damage occurs
(iv) Direct damage
(v) Threatened damage
(c) Article 4(2): the common habitual residence exception
(d) Article 4(3): the manifestly more closely connected escape clause
(i) The escape clause
(ii) A pre-existing relationship
Closely connected with the tort/delict in question
Application of the law governing the pre-existing relationship
A discretion?
(iii) The effect of the secondary connection rule: mitigating problems of classification
(iv) An escape from Article 4(1) and (2)
An exception to Article 4(1)
An exception to Article 4(2)
(e) Article 4 and road traffic accidents
(iv) Specific rules for special torts
(a) Product liability
(i) The scope of Article 5
(ii) The law applicable to product liability
A “cascading” series of rules
A lack of foreseeability exception
A common habitual residence exception
The manifestly more closely connected escape clause
(b) Unfair competition
(i) The scope of the unfair competition choice of law rules
(ii) The law applicable to unfair competition
Article 6(1)
Article 6(2)
Article 6(4)
(c) Restricting free competition
(i) The scope of Article 6(3)
(ii) The law applicable to acts restricting free competition
(d) Environmental damage
(i) The scope of Article 7
(ii) The law applicable to environmental damage
The place of damage rule
The option
Rules of safety and conduct
(e) Infringement of intellectual property rights
(i) The scope of Article 8
(ii) The law applicable to intellectual property rights
Article 8(1)
Article 8(2)
Article 8(3)
(f) Industrial action
(i) The scope of Article 9
(ii) The law applicable to industrial action
(e) The applicable law for unjust enrichment, negotiorum gestio and culpa in contrahendo
(i) Unjust enrichment
(a) The scope of Article 10
(i) Characterisation as unjust enrichment
The nature of the problem
Does it make any practical difference which set of choice of law rules is applied?
The approach to be adopted towards characterisation
(ii) Specific problems
Property or unjust enrichment?
Contract or unjust enrichment?
Tort or unjust enrichment?
Equity and unjust enrichment
Restitution for wrongdoing and unjust enrichment
(iii) Other aspects of scope
(b) The law applicable to unjust enrichment
(i) Where there is a relationship existing between the parties
When does Article 10(1) apply?
Application of the law that governs the relationship between the parties
(ii) Where the law applicable cannot be determined on the basis of paragraph (1)
When does Article 10(2) apply?
Application of the law of the country of common habitual residence
(iii) Where the law applicable cannot be determined on the basis of paragraph 1 or 2
When does Article 10(3) apply?
Application of the law of the country in which the unjust enrichment took place
(iv) The manifestly more closely connected escape clause
(ii) Negotiorum gestio
(a) The scope of Article 11
(b) The rules on the applicable law
(iii) Culpa in contrahendo
(a) The scope of Article 12
(i) Culpa in contrahendo
The problem of characterisation
(ii) A non-contractual obligation
(iii) Arising out of dealings
(iv) Prior to the conclusion of the contract
(v) Regardless of whether the contract was actually concluded or not
(vi) Damage
(b) The rules on the applicable law
(i) The primary rule
(ii) The fall-back position
The general rule
The exception
The manifestly more closely connected escape clause
(f) Choice of the applicable law
(i) Freedom of choice
(ii) Conditions imposed on the choice
(iii) An express or inferred choice
(iv) Choice and the English rules on pleading and proof of foreign law
(v) Choice and third parties
(vi) Limitations on choice
(a) Article 14(2): Provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement
(b) Article 14(3): Provisions of EU law that cannot be derogated from by agreement
(c) Overriding mandatory provisions and public policy
(d) Certain special torts
(g) Scope of the law applicable
(i) The basis and extent of liability, including the determination of persons who may be held liable for acts performed by them
(ii) The grounds for exemption from liability, any limitation of liability and any division of liability
(iii) The existence, the nature and the assessment of damage or the remedy claimed
(a) The existence and the nature of damage
(b) Assessment of damage
(c) The remedy
(iv) Within the limits of powers conferred on the court by its procedural law, the measures which a court may take to prevent or terminate injury or damage or to ensure the provision of compensation
(v) The question whether a right to claim damages or a remedy may be transferred, including by inheritance
(vi) Persons entitled to compensation for damage sustained personally
(vii) Liability for the acts of another person
(viii) The manner in which an obligation may be extinguished and rules of prescription and limitation, including rules relating to the commencement, interruption and suspension of a period of prescription or limitation
(ix) Capacity
(h) Limitations on the dominance of the law applicable
(i) Overriding mandatory provisions of the forum
(a) Article 16
(b) English overriding mandatory rules
(i) Examples of statutory mandatory rules of the forum
(ii) Common law rules of substantive law
(c) No provision on the overriding mandatory rules of foreign countries
(ii) Public policy of the forum
(a) Article 26: General discussion
(b) Against the public policy of England
(i) Rules of safety and conduct
(j) Special rules for particular issues
(i) Direct action against the insurer of the person liable
(ii) Formal validity
(k) Relationship with EU law and existing international conventions
(i) Relationship with EU law
(ii) Relationship with existing international conventions
3 Maritime Non-Contractual Obligations
(a) Maritime torts
(i) Damage occurs within territorial waters
(ii) Damage occurs on the high seas
(a) Collisions
(b) Other external acts
(b) Maritime non-contractual obligations (other than torts)
4 Mixed Issues Relating to Non-Contractual Obligations and Contract
(a) The nature of the problem
(b) The nature of the obligation
(c) A contractual obligation to which there is a contractual defence
(d) A non-contractual obligation to which there is a contractual defence
(i) Article 15(b): Application of tort choice of law rules
(a) Whether a valid exemption clause can provide an effective defence
(b) Overriding mandatory rules of the forum?
(ii) Existence, validity and scope of the exemption clause
(iii) Other contractual defences
5 Non-Contractual Obligations Outside the Scope of the Rome II Regulation
(a) Violations of privacy and rights relating to personality (excluding defamation)
(b) Defamation
(i) Defamation committed abroad
(ii) Defamation committed in England
(iii) Where is defamation committed?
(iv) Multi-state defamation
Part V Family Law
Preliminary Material
21 Marriage and Other Adult Relationships
Preliminary Material
1 The Meaning of “Marriage”
2 Formalities of Marriage
(a) The general rule
(i) The rule
(ii) Retrospectivity
(iii) What are matters of form?
(iv) Marriages in foreign consulates and embassies
(v) Renvoi
(b) Exceptions to the general rule
(i) The two statutory exceptions
(a) Consular marriage under UK law
(b) Marriage of forces personnel under UK law
(ii) The common law exception
(a) Meaning of “common law marriage”
(b) Where the common law is in force in the foreign country
(c) Insuperable difficulty
(d) Marriages of military forces in belligerent occupation
(e) Marriages on the high seas
3 Capacity to Marry
(a) Introduction
(b) The two main theories
(i) The theories stated
(ii) Evaluation of the two theories
(a) The intended matrimonial home doctrine
(b) The dual domicile theory
(iii) The rule as deducible from the English decisions
(a) Inconclusive decisions
(b) Support for the intended matrimonial home theory
(c) Support for the dual domicile theory
(c) Further issues
(i) The rule in Sottomayor v De Barros (No 2)
(ii) The role of the law of the place of celebration
(iii) Public policy
(iv) Renvoi
(v) Should the same rule apply to all issues of capacity?
(d) Alternative approaches
(i) Real and substantial connection
(ii) Alternative reference
(iii) Elective dual domicile test
(e) Capacity and recognition of foreign divorces or annulments
(i) Effect of valid divorce or annulment on capacity to remarry
(ii) Effect on capacity to marry of non-recognition of a divorce or annulment
(iii) Prohibitions against remarriage
4 Reform of General Rules
5 Polygamous Marriages
(a) Introduction
(b) Nature of a polygamous marriage
(c) What law determines the nature of a marriage?
(d) Can the nature of a marriage change?
(e) Capacity to contract a polygamous marriage
(i) Common law choice of law rules
(ii) Statutory provisions
(f) Recognition of polygamous marriages in England
6 Same Sex Relationships: Civil Partnership and Same Sex Marriage
(a) Introduction
(b) Civil partnership
(i) Civil partnerships registered in England
(ii) Overseas relationships treated as civil partnerships
(c) Same sex marriage
(i) Same sex marriage celebrated under the law of any part of the UK other than England and Wales
(ii) Same sex marriage celebrated under the law of a country or territory outside the UK
7 De Facto Cohabitation
22 Matrimonial and Related Causes
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Polygamous Marriages and Matrimonial Relief
(a) At common law
(b) Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, section 47
(c) Remaining problems
3 Divorce, Nullity and Judicial Separation
(a) Jurisdiction
(i) Bases of jurisdiction
(a) Divorce or judicial separation
(i) Jurisdiction under Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, section 5(2)(a)
“Habitual residence”
Counterclaims
Conversion of legal separation into divorce
Exclusive nature of jurisdiction under Articles 3, 4 and 5 and residual jurisdiction
(ii) Jurisdiction under Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, section 5(2)(b)
(iii) Reform of rules of matrimonial jurisdiction in Brussels II bis
(b) Nullity of marriage
(i) Jurisdiction under Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, section 5(3)(a)
(ii) Jurisdiction under Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, section 5(3)(b)
(c) Jurisdiction to entertain other matrimonial proceedings in respect of the same marriage
(ii) Impact of the statutory bases
(iii) Procedural issues
(a) Service of the petition
(b) Staying proceedings
(i) Concurrent proceedings in a related jurisdiction—obligatory stays
(ii) Concurrent proceedings in another EU Member State, except Denmark—Brussels II bis, Article 19
(iii) Concurrent proceedings in a non-EU Member State, or in Denmark—discretionary stays
Implications of Owusu v Jackson
(iv) General matters
(c) Restraining foreign proceedings (anti-suit injunctions)
(b) Choice of law
(i) Divorce and judicial separation
Rome III
(ii) Nullity
(a) Introduction
(b) Classification of the nature of the defect
(c) Lack of consent: is it formal or essential?
(i) Application of the law of the forum
(ii) Application of the law of the place of celebration
(iii) Application of the law of the domicile
(iv) Reform
Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004
The position in Scots law
Rome III
(d) Physical defects
(i) What is the present law?
(ii) What ought the law to be?
(e) Annulment on grounds unknown to English law
(f) What law determines whether a marriage is void or voidable?
(g) The law to govern the effect of a nullity decree
(c) Recognition
(i) Introduction
(ii) Divorces, annulments and judicial separations granted elsewhere in the British Isles
(iii) Divorces, annulments and legal separations obtained in another EU Member State, except Denmark
(a) Introduction
(b) General principle of recognition
(c) Grounds of non-recognition
(d) Prohibition of review of jurisdiction of the court of origin
(e) Differences in applicable law
(f) Non-review as to substance
(iv) Divorces, annulments and legal separations obtained in a non-EU Member State, or in Denmark
(a) Introduction
(b) General matters
(c) Jurisdictional rules
(i) Domicile
(ii) Habitual residence
(iii) Nationality
(d) The time at which the jurisdictional rules must be satisfied
(e) Effectiveness
(f) Meaning of “country”
(g) Two procedural issues
(i) Conversion of legal separation into divorce
(ii) Findings of fact
(h) Meaning of divorce, annulment or legal separation
(i) Irrelevance of the foreign jurisdictional rules or of the grounds for granting the divorce, etc
(j) Other statutory grounds of recognition
(v) Extra-judicial divorces, annulments and legal separations
(a) Introduction
(b) General issues
(i) Where is an extra-judicial divorce, etc obtained?
(ii) What constitutes proceedings?
(c) Extra-judicial divorces and annulments obtained in the British Isles
(d) Recognition of extra-judicial divorces, etc obtained overseas
(i) Where there are proceedings
(ii) Where there are no proceedings
(vi) Grounds for non-recognition of divorces, annulments and legal separations
(a) Introduction
(b) Res judicata
(c) No subsisting marriage
(d) Want of notice of the proceedings
(e) Want of opportunity to take part in the proceedings
(f) Public policy
(g) Special rules for extra-judicial divorces, etc where there are no proceedings
(vii) Retrospectivity
(viii) Effect of a foreign divorce, annulment or legal separation
(a) Divorce
(b) Annulment
(c) Legal separation
4 Presumption of Death and Dissolution of Marriage
(a) Jurisdiction
(b) Choice of law
(c) Recognition
5 Dissolution, Nullity and Separation of Civil Partnerships
(a) Jurisdiction
(i) Bases of jurisdiction
(a) Introduction
(b) Civil Partnership (Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments) Regulations 2005 (“section 219 regulations”)
(c) Proceedings for dissolution or separation
(d) Proceedings for nullity
(e) Other proceedings in relation to the same civil partnership
(f) Presumption of death and dissolution of civil partnership
(ii) Procedural issues
(a) Service of the petition
(b) Staying proceedings
(b) Choice of law
(i) Dissolution, separation orders and presumption of death orders
(ii) Nullity
(c) Recognition of dissolution, annulment and separation
(i) Introduction
(ii) Effect of dissolution, annulment or separation obtained in the United Kingdom
(iii) Recognition in the United Kingdom of dissolution, annulment or separation granted in a Member State
(iv) Recognition in the United Kingdom of dissolution, annulment or separation granted other than in a Member State
6 Divorce, Nullity and Separation Of Same Sex Marriages
(a) Jurisdiction
(i) Bases of jurisdiction
(a) Proceedings for divorce and separation
(b) Proceedings for nullity
(c) Other matrimonial proceedings in relation to the same marriage
(f) Presumption of death and dissolution of same sex marriage
(ii) Procedural issues
(a) Service of the petition
(b) Staying proceedings
(b) Choice of law
(c) Recognition of dissolution, annulment and separation
23 Declarations
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Family Law Act 1986, Part III
(a) Declarations as to marital status
(b) Declarations of parentage
(c) Declarations of parentage, legitimacy or legitimation
(d) Declarations as to adoptions effected overseas
(e) Limits on the courts’ powers
(f) Safeguards and other procedural matters
3 Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985
4 Civil Partnership Act 2004
5 Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
6 Presumption of Death Act 2013
24 Financial Relief
Preliminary Material
1 Jurisdiction of the English Court
(a) General jurisdictional rules
(i) Relief ancillary to an English decree of divorce, nullity or judicial separation
(ii) Failure to provide reasonable maintenance
(iii) Alteration of maintenance agreements
(iv) Financial provision in the family court
(a) Under the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978
(b) Under the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 and the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972
(b) Jurisdiction under the Maintenance Regulation
(i) What are maintenance orders?
(ii) Jurisdictional rules
(a) General rules
(b) Special rules
(c) Jurisdiction under the Lugano Convention
(d) Inter-relation of the Maintenance Regulation and the Lugano Convention with other bases of jurisdiction
2 Financial Relief After a Foreign Divorce/Dissolution, Annulment or Legal Separation
(a) Effect of foreign divorce, etc on financial relief already granted in England
(b) Powers of English court to grant financial relief, despite an earlier foreign divorce/dissolution, annulment or legal separation
(i) The common law position
(ii) Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984
(a) Orders which the court can make
(b) Jurisdiction of the English courts
(c) “Filter” mechanisms
(d) Other matters
3 Choice of Law
4 Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Orders
(a) Relief ancillary to a foreign divorce, annulment or legal separation
(b) Maintenance orders made elsewhere in the United Kingdom
(c) Recognition under the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920
(d) Recognition under the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972
(e) Recognition and Enforcement under the Maintenance Regulation
(f) Recognition and Enforcement under the 2007 Hague Convention
25 Children
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Jurisdiction in Matters of Parental Responsibility
(a) Background
(b) Bases of jurisdiction
(i) Introduction
(ii) Jurisdiction to make “section 8 orders”
(a) Jurisdiction under the 1986 Act, s 2(1)(a)
(i) Scope of Brussels II bis
(ii) Rules of jurisdiction in Brussels II bis
General jurisdiction—Article 8
“Habitual residence”
Continuing jurisdiction of the child’s former habitual residence—Article 9
Jurisdiction in cases of child abduction—Article 10
Prorogation of jurisdiction—Article 12
Jurisdiction based on child’s presence—Article 13
Transfer to a court better placed to hear the case—Article 15
(iii) Allocation of jurisdiction within the United Kingdom
The 1996 Hague Convention
(i) Scope of the 1996 Hague Convention
(ii) Rules of jurisdiction in the 1996 Hague Convention
General jurisdiction—Article 5
Jurisdiction in cases of child abduction—Article 7
Prorogation of jurisdiction—Article 10
Jurisdiction based on child’s presence—Article 6
Transfer to a court better placed to hear the case—Articles 8 and 9
(b) Jurisdiction under the 1986 Act, Section 2(1)(b)
(i) Jurisdiction in or in connection with matrimonial proceedings or civil partnership proceedings
(ii) Habitual residence or presence of the child
Habitual residence
Presence
(iii) Jurisdiction to make special guardianship orders, and orders under Adoption and Children Act 2002, section 26
(iv) Jurisdiction to make orders under Adoption and Children Act 2002, section 51(A)
(v) Jurisdiction to make orders in the exercise of the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court
(c) Variation and duration of Part I orders
(d) Refusal of application and stay of proceedings
(i) Refusal of application
(ii) Transfer to a court better placed to hear the case—Brussels II bis, Article 15 and the 1996 Hague Convention, Articles 8 and 9
The 1996 Hague Convention—Articles 8 and 9
(iii) Concurrent proceedings in another European Union Member State, except Denmark—Brussels II bis, Article 19
Brussels II bis, Article 20 (provisional, including protective, measures)
(iv) Concurrent proceedings in a Contracting State to the 1996 Hague Protection Convention—Article 13
The 1996 Hague Protection Convention, Articles 11 and 12 (provisional, including protective, measures)
(v) Concurrent proceedings in a related United Kingdom jurisdiction
(vi) Concurrent proceedings outside England and Wales, other than in another European Union Member State (except Denmark) or a Contracting State to the 1996 Hague Protection Convention
3 Choice of Law
4 Recognition and Enforcement
(a) Introduction
(b) Orders granted in another European Union Member State, except Denmark
(i) Principle of recognition
(ii) Grounds of non-recognition
(iii) Prohibition of review of jurisdiction of the court of origin
(iv) Non-review as to substance
(v) Application for a declaration of enforceability
(vi) Enforceability of certain judgments concerning rights of access
(vii) Enforcement procedure
(viii) Role of Central Authorities
(c) Orders granted in another Contracting State to the 1996 Hague Protection Convention
(d) Orders granted in Scotland and Northern Ireland
(e) Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985
(i) Part I of the 1985 Act: the Hague Convention
(a) Aim of the Convention
(b) Wrongful removal and wrongful retention
(i) Habitual residence
(ii) Rights of custody
(c) Restoration of status quo: return of the child to his habitual residence
Settlement of the child in his new environment
(d) Defences
(i) Child’s objections
(ii) Consent or acquiescence
(iii) Grave risk of harm
(e) Impact of Brussels II bis
(i) Jurisdiction in cases of child abduction
(ii) Return of the child
(iii) Expeditious procedure
(iv) Child’s views
(v) Applicant’s views
(vi) Enquiry as to adequate arrangements to secure child’s protection
(vii) Non-return orders
(viii) Enforceability of certain judgments requiring return of the child
(f) Implications of the Human Rights Act 1998
(i) Article 20 of the 1980 Hague Convention
(ii) European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) jurisprudence
(ii) Part II of the 1985 Act: the Council of Europe Convention
(iii) Permission to remove children from the jurisdiction
(f) Common law rules
(i) Recognition of foreign orders
(ii) Effect of a foreign order in England
5 Other Developments
Council of Europe Convention on Contact concerning Children
26 Cross-border Surrogacy
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
(a) Background
(b) Legal parenthood
(c) Diversity in national approaches to surrogacy
2 UK Approach to Surrogacy
(a) Background
(b) “Section 54” requirements
(i) Domicile
(ii) Personal status
(iii) Genetic link and minimum age
(iv) Child’s home
(v) Time limit
(vi) Consent
(vii) Payments
(c) Authorisation of payments
3 Human Rights Considerations
27 Legitimacy, Legitimation and Adoption
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Legitimacy
(a) Legitimacy to be governed by the law of the domicile
(b) Shaw v Gould
(i) The decision
(ii) Criticisms
(c) Other authorities
(d) Effect of doctrine of putative marriage
(e) Meaning of “domicile of origin”
(f) Relevance of the incidents of status
(g) Where birth to parents who are married does not confer legitimacy
3 Legitimation
(a) Legitimation by subsequent marriage
(i) Introduction
(ii) Common law rule
(iii) Under the Legitimacy Act 1976
(b) Legitimation by recognition
4 Adoption
(a) Adoption proceedings in England
(i) Introduction
(a) Adoption and Children Act 2002
(b) Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005
(ii) General rules
(a) Jurisdiction
(b) Choice of law
(iii) Convention rules
(a) Background
(b) 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption
(c) Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005
(i) Convention adoptions where the United Kingdom is the receiving state
(ii) Convention adoptions where the United Kingdom is the state of origin
(iii) Power to charge
(b) Procedures for taking children into and out of the United Kingdom
(i) Procedures under the AFE Regulations 2005
(a) Bringing children into the United Kingdom
(b) Taking children out of the United Kingdom
(ii) Imposition of temporary suspensions
(iii) The Children and Adoption Act 2006
(c) Recognition of foreign adoptions
(i) Recognition of adoptions made elsewhere in the British Isles
(ii) Recognition of adoptions made in Hague Convention countries (“Convention adoptions”)
(iii) Recognition of adoptions made in designated countries (“overseas adoptions”)
(iv) Annulment, etc of overseas or Hague Convention adoptions
(v) Recognition of adoptions made in other foreign countries
(d) Effect of foreign adoptions
(i) Status conferred by adoption
(ii) British citizenship and immigration
(a) Adoption orders made in the United Kingdom
(b) Convention adoptions
(c) Overseas adoptions
(d) Immigration
28 Mental Incapacity
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Mental Capacity Act 2005
(a) Concept
(i) Adult
(ii) Protective measures
(b) Jurisdiction
(i) Habitual residence in England
(ii) Property situated in England
(iii) Jurisdiction in case of urgency
(iv) Jurisdiction to take temporary and limited territorial effect protective measures
(v) Jurisdiction based on nationality
(vi) Jurisdiction upon request
(c) Choice of law
(i) General applicable law
(ii) Law applicable to implementation of protective measures
(iii) Power of attorney
(iv) Protection of third parties
(v) Mandatory rules and public policy
(d) Recognition and enforcement of protective measures taken abroad
(i) Recognition of protective measures
(ii) Refusal grounds
(iii) Enforcement of protective measures
(e) Co-Operation among Hague Convention Contracting States
3 Cases Outside the Mental Capacity Act
(a) Jurisdiction
(b) Choice of law
(c) Recognition and enforcement of protective measures taken abroad
Part VI The Law of Property
Preliminary Material
29 The Distinction Between Movables and Immovables
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Classification By the Law of the Situs
3 Some Examples
(a) Mortgages
(b) Trusts for sale
(c) Annuities
4 Relevance of Distinction Between Realty and Personalty
5 Distinction Between Tangible and Intangible Movables
30 Immovables
Preliminary Material
1 Jurisdiction
2 Choice of Law
(a) The law of the situs rule
(i) Meaning of the “law of the situs”
(b) Specific issues
(i) Capacity to take and transfer immovables
(ii) Formalities of alienation
(iii) Essential validity of transfers
(iv) Contracts
(a) Form
(b) Essential validity
(c) Capacity
31 The Transfer of Tangible Movables
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 The Various Theories
(a) The law of the domicile
(b) The law of the situs
(c) The law of the place of acting
(d) The proper law of the transfer
3 The Modern Law
(a) The general rule
(b) Derivative claims
(c) Retention of title clauses
(d) Meaning of “the law of the situs”
(e) Attachment of movables by creditors
(f) Goods in transit
(g) Gifts
(h) Cultural property
(i) Human rights
32 The Assignment of Intangible Movables
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Debts
(a) The situs of a debt
(b) The various theories on the law applicable to assignments of debts
(c) The modern law
(i) Voluntary assignments
(a) Contractual assignments—questions dependent solely on the validity and effect of the assignment
(b) Non-contractual assignments—questions dependent solely on the validity and effect of the assignment
(c) Questions dependent on the nature of the right assigned
(i) Assignability
(ii) Priorities
(iii) Substance or procedure?
(iv) Characterisation of the issue as contractual or proprietary
(ii) Subrogation
Multiple liability
(iii) Involuntary assignments
3 Negotiable Instruments
4 Shares and Securities
(a) The traditional approach
(b) The modern holding system
(i) European legislative measures
(ii) The Hague Securities Convention
(a) Background
(b) Detail
33 Corporations
Preliminary Material
1 Domicile
2 Residence
3 Status and Capacity
4 Internal Management
5 Winding Up
34 Insolvency
Preliminary Material
1 Scope
2 Jurisdiction
(a) Main insolvency proceedings jurisdiction
(b) Secondary insolvency proceedings jurisdiction
(c) Checks on jurisdiction
(d) Extent of jurisdiction
3 Choice of Law
(a) The general rule
(b) A list of issues that are covered
(c) Additional exceptions
4 Recognition of Insolvency proceedings
5 Groups of Companies and their Members
35 Administration of Estates
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
(a) Administration of Estates: Difference between common law and civil law jurisdictions
(b) Hague Convention on Administration of Estates
(c) EU Succession Regulation
2 English Grants
(a) Jurisdiction of English courts
(b) Separate wills
(c) Persons to whom grant will be made
(d) Consular grant
(e) Title of administrator under an English grant
3 Choice of Law
(a) Classification
(b) Law governing administration
4 Foreign Administrators
(a) Foreign administrators
(b) Commonwealth grant
(c) Scotland and Northern Ireland grant
36 Succession
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Movables
(a) Intestate succession
(b) Wills
(i) Capacity
(ii) Formal validity
International form of will
(iii) Essential validity
(iv) Construction
(v) Revocation
(a) Revocation by later will
(b) Revocation by destruction of the will
(c) Revocation by marriage
3 Immovables
(a) Intestate succession
(b) Wills
(i) Capacity
(ii) Formal validity
(iii) Essential validity
(iv) Construction
(v) Election
(vi) Revocation
4 European Harmonisation Concerning Succession and Wills
5 Powers of Appointment Exercised by Will
(a) Special and general powers
(b) Capacity
(c) Formal validity
(d) Essential validity
(e) Construction
(f) Revocation
37 Matrimonial Property
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Assignment Where There is no Ante-Nuptial Contract
(a) Movables
(i) Application of matrimonial domicile
(ii) Effect of a change of domicile
(b) Immovables
3 Assignment Where There is an Ante-Nuptial Contract
(a) The general rule
(b) Capacity
(c) Formal validity
(d) Essential validity
4 Matrimonial Property Rights and Divorce
5 Property Rights Arising from Other Adult Relationships
(a) Civil Partnership Act 2004
(b) Cohabitation
6 European Proposals for Reform
38 Trusts
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
2 Preliminary Issues
(a) Definition of a trust
(b) Types of trust falling within the 1987 Act
(c) Validity of the instrument of creation of the trust
(d) Transfer of trust assets
3 Choice of Law
(a) Choice by the settlor
(b) Absence of choice
(c) Scope of the applicable law
(d) Variation of the applicable law
4 Recognition
5 Mandatory Rules and Public Policy
(a) Mandatory rules
(b) Public policy
6 Variation of Trusts and Settlements
(a) Variation of Trusts Act 1958
(b) Variation of marriage settlements
Further Material
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Cheshire, North & Fawcett: Private International Law (15th Edition)
Uglješa Grušić, Christian Heinze, Louise Merrett, Alex Mills, Carmen Otero García-Castrillón, Zheng Sophia Tang, Katarina Trimmings, Lara Walker
Edited By: Paul Torremans, James J. Fawcett
Previous Edition (14 ed.)
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28 September 2017
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