As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal in the article The Last Hurdle for the Lisbon Treaty, Ireland’s Oct. 3 approval of the Lisbon Treaty strengthened the odds for the European Union to gain global clout on issues from the economy and climate change to war and peace. An excellent overview on the Treaty is provided by BBC in its article Q&A: The … [Read more...]
Enforcing European Freezing Injunctions in the United Kingdom
The last post discussed the enforcement of Chinese judgments in the United States. In this post, I’ll head across the pond to discuss the implications of a recent English High Court decision on the enforcement of judgments and Freezing Injunctions. EU Enforcement Law In D’Hoker v Tritan Enterprises Limited [2009] EWHC 948 (QB), the High Court examined … [Read more...]
European Union E-Discovery Rules: What Every Corporate Litigator Must Know
To allay fears concerning the handling of users’ personal information, European regulators have established operating guidelines for social-networking web sites to ensure they comply with the region's privacy laws. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, EU Lays Out Web Privacy Rules, the guidelines were established to shore up EU data privacy laws already in … [Read more...]