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02 July 2025
Issue: 8123 / Categories: Legal News , Commercial , International , Jurisdiction
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Hague 2019 enters into force

The 2019 Hague Convention came into force in the UK this week, marking a seminal moment for disputes lawyers

The Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters enables the enforcement of English judgments in contracting states, which include the EU, and vice versa. It will apply where proceedings commenced after 1 July 2025.

Writing in NLJ (28 March 2025, p15), Natalie Todd, partner at Cooke, Young & Keidan, said Hague 2019 would ‘restore a level of reciprocal enforcement with the EU not known since the end of the Brexit transition period’.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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