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09 December 2016 / Clare Arthurs , Richard Marshall
Issue: 7726 / Categories: Features , Brexit , EU , ADR
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A practical alphabet

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Clare Arthurs & Richard Marshall share an (almost) A-Z of cross border disputes, post-Brexit

Article 50

It should be business as usual for cross border disputes until Art 50 has been triggered—the picture is less clear after that.

Brussels (Recast)

This Regulation regulates jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments between EU member states.

Conventions

Geneva, Hague, Lugano, Rome…Almost an alphabet of their own!

Disclosure

Not all jurisdictions have the same extensive disclosure requirements as the UK courts: would minimal or extensive disclosure work better for you?

European Enforcement Orders

Uncontested claims from an EU member state court can be enforced in another member state using this streamlined procedure.

First seised

Under EU law, the courts of the member state where the claim was issued first in time decide the question of jurisdiction. But see J, L and P below…

Governing law clause

Which substantive law do you want to apply to identify and interpret the parties’ rights and obligations under the agreement?

Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements

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London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

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Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

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NEWS
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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