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“Where?” is the most important question: The United Kingdom
(Author’s note… we’ve just returned from two weeks in Scotland, and were to have posted this on September 16th, but held publication until after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. We were in Edinburgh, a mere hundred miles away, when she passed on September 8th, and Edinburgh’s rainy, gray evening seemed appropriate. This is not...
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“Where?” is critical, Episode 1: The British Isles
The most critical question in serving a defendant is “WHERE?” More specifically… Where is the defendant located? Where can you serve him/her/it? Where must you serve him/her/it? Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? Today’s cartographic dilemma: The British Isles. Essentially, two massive islands off the northwestern coast of the European continent– Great Britain and Ireland– surrounded by...
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Dr. King’s Legacy and still more to be done
Of all the impactful moments I’ve experienced on overseas CLE programs, one stands out above the rest. Our group of American lawyers was given a special tour of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (yes, they’ve had one for nearly ten years). We had visited the main courtroom– complete with an invitation to sit...
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Clearing up (hopefully) UK/British Isles confusion
Two nights ago, my wife and I returned home from an all-too-brief visit to Scotland. The daughter of some old friends got married in a beautiful ceremony in front of stunning seaside views, and then we traveled across the country & back again (this isn’t a big deal, as the country is barely eighty miles...
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Five Essential Things– Elaborated, Part 3: Choice of Law
The vast majority of cases I work on are a lot like the material we read in law school. My Torts professor told us on more than one occasion that “there are real people behind every one of these cases.” My cases are no different. She also told us that they were in these casebooks because some...
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Brexit, Service of Process, and Evidence Compulsion in the United Kingdom
[Originally published at vikinglaw.us] My newsfeed has been jam-packed with Brexit stories since England & Wales voted to quit the European Union (for the record, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted overwhelmingly to remain—and this will have additional effects on the state of the UK). On the morning of the result, I gave a CLE lecture that...