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The Brussels convention and jurisdiction.
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INTRODUCTION The need for legal and economic cooperation between the European Community integrated by 15 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) has created two main Conventions on the jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments, whose aim is to harmonise the law on jurisdiction, as part of this cooperation. Theses are the Convention of 27 September 1968 on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (Brussels Convention) and the Convention of 16 September 1988 on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters ( Lugano Convention). The House of Lords, on Overseas Union Insurance Ltd v New Hampshire Insurance Co1 has said that the relevant provisions of the Lugano Convention are in...
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