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Pickard v Marshall, the MIB and others [2017] EWCA Civ 17 – Rome II and manifestly closer connections

January 24, 2017 John-Paul Swoboda

The blog is by David Green of 12 King’s Bench Walk. Cranston J refused permission to appeal against Dingemans J’s judgment in Marshall v the MIB, Pickard and others [2015] EWHC 3421 (QB) on an important point of construction of Article 4 of the Rome II Regulations.

KXL (1) NXR (2) MXD (3) v Nicholas Murphy (1) The Society of Missionaries of Africa (“The White Fathers”) (2) [2016] EWHC 3102 (QB) – Applicable law and foreign limitation periods

January 3, 2017 John-Paul Swoboda Limitation Periods

This case concerned allegations of historic sexual abuse against three claimants who at the time of the alleged abuse were children living in Uganda. The preliminary issue before the court was a matter of applicable law: whether the Ugandan limitation period applied so that the claim was statue barred.

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