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Jurisdiction: Multi-tasking
David Capps outlines an ECJ decision looking at the priority of jurisdictional grounds as between contract and tort under the Brussels Regulation ‘Civil liability claims made in tort under national law must be considered as falling within the contractual basis for jurisdiction under Art 5(1)(a).’In the case of Marc Brogsitter v Fabrication de Montres Normandes …
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- Case C-189/87 Athanasios Kalfelis v Bankhaus Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst and Co. & ors [1988] ECR 05565
- Case C-548/12 Marc Brogsitter v Fabrication de Montres Normandes EURL & anor (2014) Seventh Chamber, 13 March