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Uneasy cohabitation. Kareda v Benkö: special jurisdictional rules (contract...
Ergo, Brogsitter, Granarolo...There is a long list of cases in which the CJEU is asked to decide whether a relationship between parties is contractual, with special jurisdiction determined by Article...
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Kareda v Stefan Benkö: CJEU rules with speed on recourse claim brought...
Less than two months after the AG Opined (see my report here), the Court of Justice has already held in C-249/16 Kareda v Stefan Benkö. The judgment follows Opinion to a tee albeit with a slightly...
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Sabbagh v Khoury. The Court of Appeal struggles on merits review for anchor...
Sabbagh v Khoury at the High Court was the subject of a lengthy review in an earlier post. The Court of Appeal has now considered the issues at stake, in no lesser detail. In line with my previous post...
View ArticleJurisdiction re prospectus liability (misrepresentation) before the CJEU...
Even Advocate-General Bobek has not managed to turn jurisdictional issues re prospectus liability into the prosaic type of analysis which many of us have become fond of. His Opinion in C-307/17 Löber v...
View ArticleAnchor defendants in follow-up competition law cases. The High Court in...
Thank you Brick Court and Stewarts, among other, for flagging Vattenfall et al v Prysmian et al in which the High Court dismissed a call for summary judgment on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction. A...
View ArticleZDF: A German refusal of Polish judgment based on ordre public. (And prof...
Many of you will have already seen (e.g. via Giesela Ruehl) the German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH)’s refusal to recognise and enforce a Polish judgment under the Brussels I Regulation...
View ArticleVik v Deutsche Bank. Court of Appeal confirms High Court’s view on Article...
I have reported earlier on Deutsche Bank AG v Sebastian Holdings Inc & Alexander Vik [2017] EWHC 459 and Dennis v TAG Group [2017] EWHC 919 (Ch). The Court of Appeal has now confirmed in [2018]...
View ArticleJurisdiction re prospectus liability. CJEU reiterates Universal Music in...
I reviewed Advocate-General Bobek’s Opinion in C-304/17 Löber v Barclays here. The following issues in particular were of note (I simply list them here; see the post for full detail): First, the AG’s...
View ArticleVEB v BP: locating purely financial damages in cross-border securities class...
Thank you AKD for flagging the Dutch Hoge Raad (Supreme Court) reference to the CJEU in what at the Court is now known as case C-709/19 Vereniging van Effectenbezitters (VEB) v BP. The Hoge Raad’s...
View ArticleSabbagh v Khoury. The jurisdictional gift that keeps on giving. In today’s...
Sabbagh v Khoury [2019] EWHC 3004 (Comm) evidently builds upon the High Court and Court of Appeal previous judgments. Pro memoria: claimant established jurisdiction against all the defendants she...
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