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A Hard Brexit for Civil International Judicial Assistance?
Friend of Letters Blogatory Peter Bert has observed that the draft Brexit treaty does not seem to make any provision for judicial cooperation in civil cases. As Peter noted almost a year ago, a “hard Brexit” in the field of international judicial assistance would mean that the Hague Service, Evidence, and Choice of Court Agreements……
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Brexit Update: The UK’s Interesting COCA Accession
The United Kingdom deposited its instrument of accession to the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements yesterday. The UK is currently bound by the Convention, because the European Union approved the Convention in 2015. Under the terms of that approval, the Convention bound all EU states except Denmark. But with Brexit on the horizon,……
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Event Announcement: “The Future of International Commercial Litigation Post-Brexit”
The Center of European Law at King’s College London will be holding the eight seminar in its Brexit series, titled The Future of International Commercial Litigation Post-Brexit. Here are the details for this interesting event. What The Future of International Commercial Litigation Post-Brexit Who The chair of the seminar is Professor Jonathan Harris, QC, of……
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An American View On Brexit
The most surprising thing about the Brexit vote, to me, was that there was a Brexit vote—that the question was put to a nationwide referendum. Many US states made provisions in their constitutions for referenda and initiative petitions in their constitutions during the Progressive Era. Even my own state, Massachusetts, did it—the only New England……