Debt Collect London Ltd and another v SK Slavia Praha-fotbal AS – WLR Daily

Posted November 8th, 2010 in conflict of laws, jurisdiction, law reports, service by sally

Debt Collect London Ltd and another v SK Slavia Praha-fotbal AS [2010] EWCA Civ 1250; [2010] WLR (D) 281

“The proviso in art 30.1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition of judgments in civil and commercial matters (the Judgments Regulation) disapplied the general rule that the court was deemed to be seised of proceedings when they were lodged. Its effect, in a case where there had been a continuing failure by the claimant, having lodged proceedings in the court of one member state, to take the further step of paying the court fee which was required before service could be effected, was to enable the court of another member state in which proceedings had later been issued nevertheless to be deemed to have been first seised of proceedings between the same parties.”

WLR Daily, 5th November 2010

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