Forum Non Conveniens in UK Law
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The Restriction of the Power of the Courts to Stay Proceedings in Favour of More Appropriate International Courts: The Decision in Owusu v Jackson
The judgment in Owusu v Jackson has provided an answer to the controversy over whether courts of EU Member States have discretion to stay proceedings in favour of courts of non-Member States. Speci...... ... , the European Court of Justice established that the doctrine of forum non conveniens could not be used so as to refuse jurisdiction and stay the ... ...
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From famine to feast. The prosecution of multi‐jurisdictional financial crime in the electronic age
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of the common law test for asserting criminal jurisdiction over financial crimes. Historically, the British courts at the turn of th...... ... for the samecriminal conduct, it is recommended that the doctrine of forum non conveniens, a familiar and developedconcept in civil law, be applied ... ...
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THE HEAR ACT: AN UNDERUTILISED TOOL FOR RECOVERING HOLOCAUST-LOOTED ART IS SCHEDULED SOON PARTIALLY TO EXPIRE.
... ... might apply; and whether a case could be dismissed on the grounds of forum non conveniens. A persistent undercurrent in these cases is that public ... ...
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The Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Judgments: The Way Forward
This article analyses the proposed Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Judgments, which has been the subject of lengthy and ongoing negotiations. The issues that continue to divide the parties cen...... ... each case based upon a close connection between the dispute and the forum in question. These include, in the case of contracts, the place of ... of the United Kingdom, the common law doctrine of forum non conveniens , which permits a forum that has jurisdiction to decline to exercise it in ... ...
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E B Crawford and J M Carruthers, INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW: A SCOTS PERSPECTIVE Edinburgh: W Green (www.wgreen.co.uk), 3rd edn, 2010. cxv + 632 pp. ISBN 9780414017757. £45.
... ... within the Brussels regime, and further circumscribed the ambit of forum non conveniens). The new edition can now add to this picture with a ... ...
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Index
... ... proper law, definition 22.57 public policy, conflict of laws 22.60 forum non conveniens 22.7, 22.11, 22.20–22.29 exempt companies ... ...
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Gerry Maher and Barry J Rodger, CIVIL JURISDICTION IN THE SCOTTISH COURTS Edinburgh: W Green (www.wgreen.co.uk), 2010. liv +418 pp. ISBN 9780414013681. £140.
... ... Jurisdiction”, and likewise of the concepts of lis pendens and forum non conveniens in the chapter entitled “Excluding Jurisdiction”, ... ...
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James J Fawcett, Máire Ní Shúilleabháin and Sangeeta Shah, Human Rights and Private International Law
... ... This is subject to the caveat that the doctrine of forum non conveniens may offer a corrective in the situations where the authors ... ...
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Section 79 Judiciary Act 1903 — How Widely Does it Travel?
... ... that the amount of damages would be affected by the forum in which the action was brought, Brennan J said: 40 ... court to which a defendant has pleaded forum non conveniens. 80 (1973) 129 CLR 65. 81 (1982) 151 CLR 38. 82 (1984) 53 ... ...
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Book Review: Conflict of Laws in Australia
... ... over foreign land into the chapter on the appropriate forum, which at least 1 (1951) 84 C.L.R. 629 ... 1969] Book Reviews 309 ... for the adoption in Australia of a doctrine of forum non conveniens. The speeches of their Lordships in British South Africa Company v ... ...
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