Private International Law A LAWS507 & LAWS2018 Vivienne Bath/Jeanne Huang

Description

These notes cover both courses that were referred to in the course outline and the additional cases mentioned in class/ the textbook. The notes provide sufficient case summaries and list the necessary statute. Topics included 1. Personal jurisdiction 2. Extra-territorial jurisdiction 3. Discretionary non-exercise of jurisdiction 4. Forum non conveniens 5. Anti-suit injunctions 6. General applicable law topics 7. Characterisation 8. Proper law and lex fori 9. Foreign law as fact 12. Exclusion of foreign laws 13. The law applicable to tort 14. The law applicable to contract 15. Illegality and foreign public policy 16. Mandatory rules 17. Recognition and enforcement of the foreign judgment