Can a bankruptcy petition be presented when based on an unrecognised and unregistered foreign judgment? This vexed and important question has attracted substantial interest from insolvency practitioners both on and offshore. The concern is particularly acute for judgments issuing from jurisdictions like Russia, which are unregistrable in England, Cayman and BVI. There is no domestic […]
DHV v MIB [2025] clarifies how Spanish law applies to cross-border road traffic claims in England. The High Court confirmed the Spanish Baremo governs damages and rejected attempts to rely on Rome II Recital 33 to expand compensation beyond the tariff system.
In a landmark Court of Appeal decision, a High Court ruling was overturned in a cross-border child custody dispute involving a 14-year-old boy removed to Ghana by his parents without his consent. Rebecca De Stefano, explores the tension between parental authority and a child’s autonomy in international family law.
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