Harding v Wealands [2006] UKHL 32

Accidents Abroad: Damage v Damages

Georgia Hicks discusses Stylianou v Suncorp and Rome II the Applicable Law in International Personal Injury Law ‘Providing a more manifest connection can be established with the victim’s home country than the country of the accident, claimants may be able to apply their own domestic law.’ The recent case of Stylianou v Toyoshima [2013] has …

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Evidence and Procedure: Getting to grips with the substance/procedure divide under Rome II

Robert Weir QC explains the significance of the first High Court decision to consider as a preliminary issue what provisions governed the instruction of experts ‘Rome II provides a set of rules to permit a court to determine what the applicable law is to the claim in tort.’ Rome II is an instrument for harmonising …

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Jurisdiction: A short introduction to Rome II

Charles Dougherty and Marie Louise Kinsler look at the scope and impact of the rules Commercial parties will need to consider the scope of choice of law clauses and whether they are wide enough to encompass a non-contractual as well as contractual choice of law.On 11 January 2009, Regulation (EC) 864/2007, on the law applicable …

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