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Fanny Cornette on EC Regulation 1393/2007
Letters Blogatory contributor Fanny Cornette shares thoughts on the recent European Commission report on the operation of EC Regulation 1393/2007 Once again, I want to write a post concerning a regulation of the European Union. EC Regulation 1393/2007 is, for the member states of the European Union, the counterpart of the 1965 Hague Convention on……
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Announcements from the UIHJ
Here, courtesy of IJA Brigade member Fanny Cornette, are two announcements from the International Union of Judicial Officers (Union internationale des huissiers de justice). First, on March 15, 2013 in Brussels, the UIHJ will be holding the Sixth European Training Day of Judicial Officers. On the program: European Directive 2008/52/EC, Brussels I, and an annual……
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Case of the Day: Alder v. Orłowska
IJA Brigade member Fanny Cornette is back with a look a Alder v. Orłowska, a new case from the European Court of Justice on fictitious service of process or notification au parquet in the European Union. Readers may recall that the case came up in the comments to Peter Bert’s piece on The Hague Service……
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Case of the Day: European Community v. RJR Nabisco
I’m going outside the official Letters Blogatory Scope of Coverage to write about European Community v. RJR Nabisco, Inc. (E.D.N.Y. 2011), an interesting reversal of the usual FSIA case. In the usual case, a sovereign defendant asserts immunity from jurisdiction in the US courts. In today’s case, the sovereign—or the supposed sovereign—was the plaintiff. The……
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Case of the Day: Prism Investments BV v. van der Meer
Conflict of Laws.net had a post on a recent decision of the European Court of Justice, Prism Investments BV v. van der Meer. The facts were as follows: A Finnish bank loaned money to Arilco Opportune, which in turn lent the money to its Netherlands subsidiary, Arilco Holland. Arilco Holland transferred the funds to Prism……