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Unamar and lois de police in the Rome Convention /Rome I Regulation
The Court of Justice has an opportunity to clarify the exact relationship between mandatory and overriding mandatory provisions of EU and national law under the Rome Convention on applicable law to...
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Wahl AG in Unamar: national gold-plating of Union law does qualify as lois de...
I flagged earlier that regardless of the outcome for the Unamar case itself, an important consideration would be what the Court’s eventual answer will teach us about the Rome I Regulation on the...
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Unamar: Better get those travaux préparatoires out. The ECJ does not rule out...
I reported earlier on the AG’s Opinion in Unamar, Case C-184/12. The Court held this morning. The facts of the case were as follows: in 2005, Unamar, as commercial agent, and NMB, as principal,...
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Belgian supreme court holds on gold-plated provisions in Unamar. Appeal...
Writing a case-note on Unamar is becoming an ever moving target: the Belgian Supreme Court (Hof van Cassatie /Cour de Cassation) held on 12 September, following the ECJ’s judgment in same – I would...
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It’s true! Belgian Supreme Court confirms order for Yahoo! to hand over...
Jurisdiction and the internet is a topic which has featured once or twice on this blog recently (and in a paper which I have already referred to in those earlier postings). Belgian’s Supreme Court in...
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Lodi Trading, a lotta fog: Kolassa in the Belgian Supreme Court.
Many thanks Michael Verhaeghe (whom I have the pleasure with jointly to be representing a client) for alerting me to Lodi Trading in which the Belgian Supreme Court applied (and distinguished)...
View ArticlePublish and rule. The Belgian Supreme Court on scholarship and the judiciary.
Thank you Jelle Flo for alerting us to the succinct Belgian Supreme Court ruling of 21 November 2018. A judge had published a scholarly piece on an issue of law, in tempore non suspecto, expressing a...
View ArticleHappy Flights v Ryanair. Belgian Supreme Court (only) confirms proper lex...
Thank you alumna and appreciated co-author Jutta Gangsted for flagging Charles Price’s (former learned colleague of mine at Dibb Lupton Alsop) and Sébastien Popijn’s alert on the Belgian Supreme...
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