Owusu v Jackson [2005] EUECJ C-281/02

Contracting: Parenting problems

Gwendoline Davies and Malcolm Simpson look at jurisdiction and the liability of parent companies for international subsidiaries ‘In order to proceed with a claim in the UK, the claimants in Lungowe and Okpabi had to establish that the UK parent companies were liable in tort for the acts or omissions of their international subsidiaries.’ The …

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Schedule 1: Competing interests

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Julia Brown reports on jurisdictional aspects of Schedule 1 proceedings and the decision in O v P [2014] ‘As with any other family proceedings the court must first of all be convinced that it has jurisdiction to deal with a Schedule 1 application.’ Family life in 2014 is far different from that in the 1970s …

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Consumer Protection Act 1987: Defective products

Charles Dougherty QC and Isabel Barter offer a practical guide to the Consumer Protection Act 1987 ‘It is worth noting that certain products are inherently unsafe but that does not mean that they are necessarily defective.’ Part 1 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (CPA), which implemented the European Directive of July 1985 (the directive), …

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Child Maintenance: Foreign finances

Melanie Barnes outlines the available options when dealing with international child maintenance ‘In non-EU cases even where a foreign country is not governed by Brussels I, the English court may still be bound by its rules.’As the numbers of family cases with an international element increases, there is greater need for expertise on child maintenance …

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