The Working Group on Mediation (CEPEJ-GT-MED) will meet on 24 and 25 May 2018 in Strasbourg to discuss and adopt a Toolbox aiming to complement the CEPEJ Guidelines on family, civil and criminal mediation. On this occasion, it will also discuss the results of the study on the impact of the CEPEJ Guidelines in the […]
Month: May 2018
Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill introduced – 24 May 2018
The Courts and Tribunals (Judiciary and Functions of Staff) Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on Wednesday 23rd May. The Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and the Senior President of Tribunals Sir Ernest Ryder said: “We are pleased that the Government is showing a commitment to progressing reforms of the justice system. Enabling court […]
The UK Government publishes presentation on the UK-EU economic partnership framework – 24 May 2018
The presentation published today sets out the UK Government’s proposed approach for the future UK-EU economic partnership. Full document
European Justice Forum position paper – Directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers – 24 May 2018
The European Justice Forum (EJF) calls on EU institutions to shape a fair, balanced and efficient civil justice system for dealing with mass consumer complaints in Europe. Playing by the rules is a common interest shared by consumers and business. EJF’s position paper
Cross-border enforcement of settlement agreements under the new UNCITRAL framework: The Russian perspective – Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg – 12 June 2018
On Tuesday, 12 June 2018, Dmitry Davydenko will be speaking on “Cross-border enforcement of settlement agreements under the new UNCITRAL framework: The Russian perspective”. Since spring 2007 the Unit for Russia and other CIS Nations has organised a regular discussion forum on the legal, political and societal developments of the post-Soviet realm. The forum’s goal is to […]
International Workshop – Cross-Border Debt Recovery in the EU – Application of the “second generation” regulations in France and Luxembourg – Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg – 8 June 2018
The International Workshop on “Cross-Border Debt Recovery in the EU – Application of the “second generation” regulations in France and Luxembourg” is organised in the framework of the IC2BE research project “Informed Choices in Cross-Border Enforcement”. Funded by the Justice Programme (2014-2020) of the European Commission, this project (JUST-AG-2016-02) aims to assess the working in practice […]
Out now: The Private-Public Divide in International Dispute Resolution – The 2017 Hague Lecture of Professor Burkhard Hess published
The 2017 Hague Lecture of Professor Burkhard Hess on the topic “The Private-Public Divide in International Dispute Resolution” has been published in Recueil des Cours 388 pg. 49‑266. The Lecture addresses dispute resolution in international cases from the classical perspective of the private-public divide. This distinction is known in almost all legal systems of the […]
Call for papers International Business Courts – A European and Global Perspective – Erasmus Law Review (issue 12-2)
Erasmus Law Review is a double-blind peer review journal and invites submissions for its upcoming special issue on International Business Courts – A European and Global Perspective. International commercial or business courts have long been established in a number of countries as a form of court specialization the aim of which is to offer a […]
Revised Preliminary Explanatory Report on the Judgments Project – May 2018
Following the Council on General Affairs and Policy’s appreciation of the very good progress made in respect of the Judgment Project and its mandate to the Permanent Bureau to continue preparations for a Fourth and final Meeting of the Special Commission, a revised Preliminary Explanatory Report on the Judgments Project, drafted by Professors F.J. Garcimartín Alférez […]
Commercial Court Users’ Group: Meeting Report – March 2018
On 29 April 2018, the Judiciary of England and Wales published the Commercial Court Users’ Group Meeting Report – March 2018. Contained within that report are some statistics regarding the number and outcome of arbitration claims within the Commercial Court over the past three years. The Report states that arbitration claims made up approximately 30% of the total […]
