ABSTRACT

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

part |2 pages

PART I

chapter 1|23 pages

INTRODUCTION

INTERNATIONAL LAW

chapter |2 pages

Proof of foreign law

chapter |5 pages

True and false conflicts

chapter 2|4 pages

THE POSSIBILITIES FOR CHOICE OF LAW

chapter |12 pages

Presence

chapter |4 pages

Lex loci delicti commissi

chapter |10 pages

What connections are relevant?

chapter |2 pages

CONCLUSIONS

chapter 3|10 pages

DOMICILE

THE NATURE OF DOMICILE

chapter |1 pages

Prisoners

chapter |3 pages

Diplomats, employees, military forces

chapter |5 pages

Revival of the domicile of origin

chapter |7 pages

THE NATURE OF CORPORATE PERSONALITY

chapter 4|2 pages

CLASSIFICATION

chapter |10 pages

CLASSIFICATION AS TO THE CAUSE OF ACTION

chapter 5|3 pages

THE INCIDENTAL QUESTION

WHAT IS AN INCIDENTAL QUESTION?

chapter |3 pages

THE EXPERIENCE OF THE CASE LAW

chapter |4 pages

Succession

chapter 6|5 pages

SUBSTANCE AND PROCEDURE

THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SUBSTANCE AND PROCEDURE1

chapter |1 pages

The statutory regime

chapter |8 pages

THE LAW OF EVIDENCE

chapter |4 pages

JUDGMENTS IN A FOREIGN CURRENCY

part |2 pages

Part I of the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995

chapter 7|12 pages

RENVOI

chapter 8|1 pages

THE PROOF OF FOREIGN LAW

THE NATURE OF FOREIGN LAW

chapter |1 pages

HOW FOREIGN LAW IS PROVED

chapter |4 pages

WHO CAN TESTIFY AS TO FOREIGN LAW?

chapter |19 pages

EXCLUSION OF FOREIGN LAW

part |2 pages

PART II

chapter |6 pages

THE JURISDICTION OF THE ENGLISH COURTS: AN INTRODUCTION

PRELIMINARY MATTERS

chapter |3 pages

JURISDICTION: THE TRADITIONAL RULES

chapter |15 pages

Partnerships

chapter |24 pages

STAYS OF ENGLISH PROCEEDINGS AND THE RESTRAINING OF FOREIGN PROCEEDINGS

STAYS OF ENGLISH PROCEEDINGS

chapter |7 pages

JURISDICTION UNDER THE BRUSSELS AND LUGANO CONVENTIONS

THE BRUSSELS CONVENTION

chapter |4 pages

The domicile of the defendant

chapter |6 pages

Contracts

chapter |11 pages

Trusts

chapter |5 pages

Submission

chapter |9 pages

Conflicting judgments

chapter |1 pages

THE LUGANO CONVENTION

part |2 pages

PART III

chapter |2 pages

THE LAW OF CONTRACT

chapter |5 pages

THE COMMON LAW APPROACH

chapter |10 pages

THE ROME CONVENTION

chapter |5 pages

Article 7(1)

chapter |3 pages

Public policy

chapter |10 pages

Consumer contracts

chapter |33 pages

THE LAW OF TORT

chapter |5 pages

The exclusion of defamation

chapter |17 pages

MARRIAGE

chapter |4 pages

The intended matrimonial home doctrine

chapter |1 pages

A variable rather than a single rule

chapter |8 pages

The lex fori and essential validity

chapter |14 pages

Prohibited degrees of relationship

chapter |1 pages

Monogamy to polygamy

chapter |3 pages

Recognition of polygamous marriage

chapter |3 pages

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES

chapter |3 pages

Obligatory

chapter |5 pages

CHOICE OF LAW

chapter |4 pages

Transnational divorces

chapter |1 pages

No subsisting marriage

chapter |12 pages

CHILDREN

chapter |11 pages

Succession by legitimated persons

chapter |1 pages

Habitual residence

chapter |4 pages

Non-convention countries

chapter |14 pages

PROPERTY

chapter |2 pages

IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

chapter |16 pages

Capacity to take and transfer immovables

chapter |1 pages

THE ASSIGNMENT OF INTANGIBLE MOVABLES

chapter |1 pages

The lex situs

chapter |1 pages

The proper law of the debt

chapter |7 pages

The situs of an intangible movable

chapter |13 pages

SUCCESSION

chapter |12 pages

Immovable property

chapter |13 pages

Capacity

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