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Case of the Day: Stichting Shell Pensionenfonds v. Krys
The case of the day is Stichting Shell Pensionenfonds v. Krys [2014] UKPC 41. Shell, a Dutch pension fund, had invested in shares of Fairfield Sentry Ltd., a BVI mutual fund and the largest “feeder fund” for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, which needs no introduction. After Madoff’s arrest, Shell immediately sought to redeem……
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Case of the Day: Petmas Investors v. Sameiet Holbergs Gate 19
The case of the day is Petmas Investors Ltd. v. Sameiet Holbergs Gate 19 (D.N.J. 2014). Sameiet Holdbergs operated a business in Oslo. In 2008, a renovation in the building damaged Sameiet’s space, and Sameiet sued Petmas Investors, which it claimed was responsible for the damage, in a Norwegian court. Petmas, a US firm, asserted……
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Check out Cartas Blogatorias’s New Correspondents!
For those of you who haven’t been following Letters Blogatory’s sister blog, Cartas Blogatorias, I encourage you to check it out. Javier and Claudia have done a great job with their own posts and a great job bringing other Latin American (and Spanish) lawyers and scholars on board. Their list of correspondents who will be……
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Cuba and International Judicial Assistance
On Wednesday, President Obama announced that the United States and Cuba will normalize their relations. This announcement, the long-overdue release of American Alan Gross on humanitarian grounds, and the honorable exchange of three of the so-called “Cuban Five” for a US intelligence agent, show that despite the predictable fury from American hardliners on Cuba such……
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Book Review: Elizabeth Williams and Sue Russell, The Illustrated Courtroom: 50 Years of Court Art
I’ve always thought that a good courtroom sketch can tell you more about what really goes on in a trial than a transcript or even sometimes than a good firsthand narrative account. A trial is a drama, and sometimes the drama is conveyed better by the expression on the witness’s face, or the body language……