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 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 moreService, jurisdiction and forum conveniens post Brexit
The High Court has handed down an interesting judgment on service, jurisdiction and forum conveniens post Brexit. In this post, Alex Carington considers the decision of Master McCloud in Charlton v Deffert [2022] EWHC 2378 (KB) in which he successfully defended a jurisdiction challenge by the Defendant. A copy of the judgment can be found…
Read moreCourt of Appeal: English judges can exercise former CJEU powers
The first signs of divergence between the UK and EU legal systems are starting to emerge in cases based on the proper approach to retained EU law. In Open Rights Group & Anor, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2021] EWCA Civ 1573, the Court of…
Read moreDon’t hold out hope for future UK Lugano accession
It is old news that the UK’s bid to join the Lugano Convention has stalled and been kicked into the political long grass. We previously blogged about the reasons given by the EU Commission for opposing UK Lugano Convention membership. Specifically: For the European Union, the Lugano Convention is a flanking measure of the internal…
Read moreJurisdiction and Applicable Law Post-Brexit: A Refresher
This blog post is by Spencer Turner of 12 King’s Bench Walk. With ‘exit day’ looming on 31st October 2019 and the very real possibility of a no-deal Brexit, it seems to a be a good time to set out a refresher on jurisdiction and applicable law in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
Read moreCPR Brexit Amendments
The most recent iteration of proposed Brexit amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 was laid before Parliament on 8 March 2019 (Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019). Will they still be relevant in few days’ time? Who knows! In the meantime, for those interested, here are the headlines.
Read moreThe Draft Withdrawal Agreement – headlines for cross-border practitioners
It will not have escaped our readers’ notice that last week the UK and the EU released the draft text of a withdrawal agreement covering the UK’s exit from the EU. In a nutshell, the key provisions governing applicable law and jurisdiction are as follow. Article 66 covers applicable law. It provides: The Rome I…
Read moreBrexit and the Government White Paper: Are the Civil Judicial Cooperation plans Realistic?
In this blog, which follows on from Philip Mead’s recent post explaining the legal implications the Government’s recent White Paper (Cm 9593), Patrick Vincent suggests that the Lugano Convention has been wrongly worded and wrongly translated – but that even if corrected it will not help the UK achieve post-Brexit civil judicial cooperation with the…
Read moreThe White Paper on The Future Relationship Between the United Kingdom and the European Union: Brexit Trifle or Dog’s Dinner?
This blog by Philip Mead of 12 King’s Bench Walk describes the approach adopted by the Government to negotiations with the EU as set out in the White Paper (Cm 9593) published on 12 July 2018, with particular reference to international and travel claims involving employment and personal injury.
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