In this blog post, Corinne Novell unpacks the CJEU’s recent preliminary ruling in M1.R. and M2.R. v AAA sp. z o.o. on the applicability of Regulation 261/2004 to flights booked as part of a package holiday. M1.R and M2.R were holidaygoers who had booked a package holiday including a flight from Tenerife to Warsaw, operated…
Read moreUK accedes to Hague Judgments Convention
Today, it is not just the weather that is extremely hot, but also the anticipation, as the United Kingdom’s hotly-anticipated ratification of the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (“the Hague Judgments Convention”) takes effect and the Convention enters into force in England and…
Read morePEOPIL Position Paper on post-Brexit UK-EU relations
In case you missed it, PEOPIL (The Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers) have published a position paper reflecting on the UK-EU Summit held in May 2025 as part of the UK-EU reset. The paper sets out PEOPIL’s view that there is no legal basis for the EU’s refusal of the UK’s request to rejoin…
Read moreNew Hague Service Convention Checklist Published
Since Brexit’s obliteration of the EU Service Regulation’s mechanism for service in Member States, the Hague Service Convention has assumed increasing significance as a ‘straightforward’ mechanism for cross-border service. But those who have actually done this will know all too well that serving under the Hague Service Convention involves jumping through a series of surprisingly…
Read moreForeign Judgments Part 2: A Practical Guide to Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
In Part 2 of this two-part series on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, Alex Cornelius provides practical guidance on how judgments obtained in foreign courts can be enforced in England and Wales under the pre-Brexit European provisions, specific statutory regimes and the common law. Part 1 of this series, considering the decision of Kerr…
Read moreForeign Judgments Part 1: Olsen v Finansiel Stabilitet A/S [2025] EWHC 42 (KB)
In Part 1 of this two-part blog series on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, Alex Cornelius outlines the recent decision of Kerr J in Olsen v Finansiel Stabilitet A/S [2025] EWHC 42 (KB). Part 2 will provide a helpful practical guide to the main avenues for enforcing foreign judgments in England and Wales. Olsen…
Read moreNewsflash: Consultation on 2018 Package Travel Regulations Reform
As the weather turns warmer and 12KBW’s International and Travel team begin to yearn for their summer break, their thoughts inevitably turn towards the regulatory regime underpinning any package holidays which they may recently have concluded. So too, it seems, do the thoughts of the Department for Business and Trade, who have recently launched a…
Read moreMarinakis 1 – 0 Karipidis – a recap of the principles applicable in a FNC challenge
In this blog post, Alex Carington summarises a recent decision of Richard Spearman KC (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the King’s Bench Division) which represents the latest instalment in the ongoing libel proceedings brought by Evangelos Marinakis, owner of Nottingham Forest FC, against his rival Greek football magnate Irini Karipidis. Aside from the inevitable…
Read moreForum non conveniens decoded: Limbu v Dyson Technology Ltd & ors [2024] EWCA Civ 1564
In this blog’s final post before 12KBW’s International and Travel team enjoy a well-earned break over the festive period, John Paul Swoboda decodes the Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in Limbu v Dyson Technology Ltd & ors [2024] EWCA Civ 1564. All that remains is for the Editor, on behalf of the whole team at…
Read moreAlton v PZU [2024] EWCA Civ 1435: RTA claim vs foreign insurer secures a reprieve
The judgment of the Court of Appeal in Elysa Alton v Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń [2024] EWCA Civ 1435 (BAILII) serves as something of a cautionary tale and a salutary reminder to Claimant representatives to ensure that their house is in order vis-à-vis cross-border issues before issuing a claim against the insurer of a foreign-registered vehicle….
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