Table of Articles

Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters

Scope of the Convention - Jurisdiction of the courts of a Contracting State in the absence of any conflict of jurisdiction with another Contracting State - N° 1992/10

Rules of jurisdiction - Autonomous interpretation - N° 1993/3

Interlocal jurisdiction - Provisions of Title II of the Convention applicable by virtue of national law to the allocation of civil jurisdiction as between the separate jurisdictions within the United Kingdom - Person domiciled in Scotland and summoned to appear before an English court - N° 1993/8

Scope - Proceedings for the recognition and enforcement in a Contracting State of judgments given in non-contracting States - Excluded - Need for a decision on a preliminary issue - Irrelevant - N° 1994/1

Link with the EEC Treaty - Fourth indent of Article 220 - Connection of Treaty with both the Convention and the national provisions referred to by the Convention - N° 1994/2

Community law - Principles - Equal treatment - Discrimination on grounds of nationality - National provision authorizing seizure based on the presumption of foreseeable difficulties in the event of a Judgment being enforced abroad - Presumption not justified where enforcement takes place in a Member State party to the Brussels Convention - Unlawful  - N° 1994/2

Scope of the Convention - Dispute opposing French constructors and an English Expertise Bureau to an international consortium exploiting an oil field in the British zone of the North sea and their insurers established in Community States and others - Checks carried out in France - Action for a finding of liability brought before a French court - English defendant relied on the Convention to contest jurisdiction before the lower courts and in his appeal in cassation - Absence of an appeal in cassation denouncing the non-application of the Convention - Inapplicability of the Convention - N° 1996/21

Scope of the Convention - Impact of the Convention on the interpretation of national rules on international jurisdiction in a field excluded from the Convention - Interpretation of national law in conformity with the Court's case-law on the Convention - N° 1997/24

Scope of the Convention - Claimant domiciled in a third State and defendant in a Contracting State - Applicability of the Convention - N° 1999/8