scholarly journals Conflict of Laws: Jurisdiction of the Court and Choice of Law in Cross-Border Matrimonial Suit in India

2017 ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Indrani Kundu
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Civil Union ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Marriage Laws ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Domestic Law ◽  
Legal Procedures

Marriage, a civil union between two persons, involves some legal procedures which determine the rights and liabilities of parties in such civil union. Conflict of marriage laws is the conflict of laws governing status and capacity to marry defined by personal laws of parties to the marriage. Rules of Conflict of Laws are set of procedural rules which determine A) which legal system will be applicable to a given dispute, & B) which Court will have jurisdiction to try the suit.In the words of Dicey and Morris, rules of Private International Law do not directly determine the rights and liabilities of persons, rather it determines the jurisdiction of Court and the choice of body of law i.e. whether by the domestic law or by any foreign law, the case will be decided. This paper, by adopting doctrinal approach, seeks to find the criteria for Indian court to exercise jurisdiction in cross border matrimonial suit. Further, it endeavors to find out the difference between term ‘domicile’ and ‘residence’.

Private International Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.C. Govindaraj
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Application Of Law ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Corrective Measures ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Law

In deciding cases of private international law or conflict of laws, as it is widely known, judges of the Supreme Court in India generally consult the works of renowned English jurists like Dicey and Cheshire. This volume argues that our country should have its own system of resolving inter-territorial issues with cross-border implications. The author critically analyses cases covering areas such as the law of obligations, the law of persons, the law of property, foreign judgments, and foreign arbitral awards. The author provides his perspectives on the application of law in each case. The idea is to find out where the judges went wrong in deciding cases of private international law, so that corrective measures can be taken in future to resolve disputes involving complex, extra-territorial issues.

The Lex Fori

2019 ◽  
pp. 172-194
Author(s):  
Adrian Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
English Court ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The Law

This chapter examines of the role of the lex fori in English private international law before proceeding to examine the rules of the conflict of laws applicable in an English court. Issues for which the rules of the conflict of laws select the lex fori as the law to be applied include grounds for the dissolution (as distinct from nullity) of marriage, even if the marriage has little or nothing to do with the United Kingdom; or settlement of the distribution of assets in an insolvency even though there may be significant overseas elements. Where the rules of the conflict of laws select a foreign law, its application, even though it is proved to the satisfaction of the court, may be disrupted or derailed by a provision of the lex fori instead. The remainder of the chapter covers procedural issues; penal, revenue, and public laws; and public policy.

PRIVATE COMMERCIAL LAW CONVENTIONS AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE RADICAL APPROACH OF THE CAPE TOWN CONVENTION 2001 AND ITS PROTOCOLS

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Goode
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Domestic Law ◽  
Radical Approach

It is a remarkable circumstance that with a few honourable exceptions all writers on international law in general and treaty law in particular focus exclusively on public law treaties. Private law conventions, including those involving commercial law and the conflict of laws, simply do not come into consideration. Yet such conventions, like public law conventions, are treaties between States and are governed by the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and many of them are of great significance. Their distinguishing feature is, of course, that while only States are parties, private law conventions deal primarily, and often exclusively, with the rights and obligations of non-State parties. So while the treaty is international it does not for the most part commit a Contracting State to any obligation other than that of implementing the treaty in domestic law by whatever method that State's law provides, if it has not already done so prior to ratification.

scholarly journals DIRECT ACTIONS AGAINST INSURERS IN CROSS-BORDER TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN AN EUROPEANISED PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW – WHAT PROTECTION FOR THE INJURED PARTIES?

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 137-166
Author(s):  
Klea Vyshka
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
International Law ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
The Relationship

This article offers a discussion of the law applicable to cross-border traffic accidents, from the perspective of the protection of injured parties. The introduction of principles like direct actions against insurers by injured third parties (forum actoris), mostly because of CJEU’s liberal approach, puts into question the relationship between European private international law and national Member State rules of conflict-of-laws. This article aims to propose an answer to the question “Does the European private international law set of rules offer an adequate protection for the injured parties?” with the view of offering also a few recommendations for the reformation of the Rome II Regulation.

Prospects for recodification of private international law in Ukraine: Do conflict-of-laws rules require a new haven?

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-210
Author(s):  
Dmytro V. Lukianov ◽  
Thomas Hoffmann ◽  
Inesa A. Shumilo
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
European Experience ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the study was to investigate the areas of modernisation of legislation governing private relations of a cross-border nature, proposed by the authors of the draft concept of updating (recodification) of the Civil Code of Ukraine (the CCU), and generalise foreign and international legal experience in developing acts of codification of private international law. The authors of the study considered private international law as a most dynamically developing branch due to the constant expansion of cross-border relations and requirements for constant updating and adaptation to the requirements of international civil turnover. The paper analysed the general factors and prerequisites for the recodification of private international law, comprehensively examined the expediency of abandoning autonomous codification and transferring conflict-of-law rules to the CCU. The study focused on current European experience and assessment of the impact of EU regulations on the national codifications of private international law of member states and third countries. To assess the idea of restoring the status of the CCU as a core act governing all public relations with private law content, the authors of the study addressed the negative consequences of interbranch codification of private international law in a number of post-Soviet countries. The paper proved that European states are dominated by the tendency to adopt consolidated acts of codification in this area and recognise the priority of unified international legal acts governing certain types of cross-border private relations. Based on the analysis, it is justified to conclude that the world has currently accumulated considerable experience in law-making in the area of private international law and the most effective is a comprehensive autonomous codification of conflict-of-laws rules, which is based on the priority of unified international acts and the widespread use of direct references to international agreements. While agreeing in general with the proposed changes regarding the content update of conflict-of-laws regulation, the authors emphasised the need to improve and develop conceptual approaches

scholarly journals Modern Trends in the Development of Private International Law and its Place in the Legal System

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 44-60
Author(s):  
B. A. Shakhnazarov
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Regulatory Elements ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cross Border

The paper analyzes the current trends in the development of private international law, its relationship with international public law. Special attention is paid to the relationship between the public and the private in the regulation of cross-border private law relations, the concept of a polysystemic complex. The special role of the international civil process in the system of modern private international law is noted. Being implemented by law enforcement agencies, also in the context of the application of uniform conflict-of-law rules, the conflict-oflaws method of private international law vests with the public area due to its implementation. It is difficult to call the conflict-of-laws regulation a trend in private international law. The author highlights the international (crossborder) nature of private international law. Modern private international law is characterized by the presence of a symbiosis of traditional methods of state substantive and conflict-of-laws legal regulation and non-state regulation emanating from the subjects of private law relations, formed with due regard to the use of modern information technologies and often implemented in the digital environment, including with the use of non-state alternative methods of dispute resolution modernizing their forms with the development of technologies (the ODR, blockchain arbitration, the UDRP).The paper highlights the formation of “cross-border private law” that is private in its own nature and in the context of the formation procedure which means that it comes from the subjects of private law. The author highlights such trends in the development of private international law in modern conditions as harmonization, primarily of electronic methods, of mechanisms for the implementation of private law relations; profiling of private international law within the framework of the activities of international organizations and cross-border self-regulatory organizations; orientation towards the uniform formation of private international law in the world and the expansion of its regulatory elements

scholarly journals Saznanje i primena stranog prava u međunarodnom privatnom pravu Republike Srbije

Forum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 109-132
Author(s):  
Sanja Stankovic
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Competent Authority ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Multilateral Agreements ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic

Today, as a consequence of cross‐border movement of people, goods, capital and delivering of services exists more and more cases with international element. Authority of state before which the process is started, firstly by establishes the existences of international jurisdiction. If the authority establishes its competence, by conflict rule it determines ex officio the law of state which law should be applied. When the law of foreign state has to be applied, competent authority is obliged ex officio to deterime and apply it.The methods of cognition of foreign law content are regulated by law regulating private international law, bilateral agreements regulating international legal assistance, multilateral agreements sedes materiae, i.e. European Convention on information about foreign law and multilateral agreements lex specialis.The purpose of this paper is to present the concepts encompased in legal sources of the Republic of Serbia, and to compare them mutually as well as to present the provisions of comparative practice, i.e. states in the region.

Public Policy in the Conflict of Laws: a Chinese Wall around Little England?

1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Enonchong
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
As If

The English courts have often incurred the reproach of undue insularity in their attitude to foreign law.1 A common gripe is that they have failed to recognise that there is a world elsewhere, and that England is not “a legal island”.2 Savigny, we are told,3 was moved to lament over the fact that although in other branches of knowledge there was an internationalist outlook in England, in the field of jurisprudence alone it “remained divided from the rest of the world, as if by a Chinese wall”. Recently it has been suggested that “The foundation of this Chinese wall… lay … in an unquestioning belief in the superiority of the common law and its institutions, at least in England.”4 It would be unsafe to affirm that the charge of insularity has always been without foundation. The “Little England”5 attitude of mind, Roskill LJ reminds us,6 was “once proclaimed in the phrase ‘Athanasius contra mundum’”. And it should occasion no surprise that the examples commonly advanced to substantiate the charge are usually drawn from private international law.7

Statute Splitting in Private International Law

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Oksana Lutkova
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Legal Relation ◽  
Scientific Issue ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Domestic Law

This article considers the basic concepts of the private international law doctrine about “splitting of the statute”. Statute splitting is the phenomenon when more than one legal order is applied at the same time to a single legal relation. However, there are several conflicting approaches regarding this scientific issue. Representatives of one of the approaches see splitting of the statute in the domestic law conflicts of state characterized by a multiplicity of legal systems. Representatives of the other approach believe that splitting of the statute occurs when separate parts of a single legal relation are subject to different conflict of law rules. The author of this article holds the opinion of the representatives of yet another approach to this issue and gives arguments in favor of the position that “genuine” splitting of statute means that a single legal relation is regulated by a single conflict of laws rule but in reality the laws of several states rather than the law of one state are applied according to the facts of the single legal relation. The author suggests new terminology for the “splitting of the statute” concept.

Animal Science Products, Inc. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (U.S. Sup. Ct.)

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Whytock
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
Choice Of Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Domestic Courts ◽  
The Way

Domestic courts frequently apply foreign law. For example, the forum's choice-of-law rules may require a court to apply foreign law, or a party may expressly base a claim or defense on foreign law. Private international law (or “conflict of laws”) provides principles governing many aspects of the way courts should identify and interpret foreign law.

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