Cheshire, North & Fawcett: Private International Law

Description

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded work has been fully updated to encompass the major changes and developments in the law. The book is invaluable for the practitioner as well as being one of the leading students' textbooks in the field.

• Provides comprehensive coverage of the full range of private international law topics
• Offers not only in-depth academic treatment of the principles, but also an examination of important commercial topics within the subject, such as the private international law treatment of contracts, jurisdiction and enforcement of judgments
• Written by an expert team with a wealth of both academic and practical experience

New to this edition

• Treatment of the Recast Brussels I Regulation which came into force in 2015
• Coverage of the Rome I Regulation in light of implementation in 2009
• Coverage of the EU Maintenance Regulation 2009
• Treatment of the 1996 Hague Children Convention
• Treatment of the impact in the UK of the EU Wills and Succession Regulation

About the Author(s)

Edited by Paul Torremans, Professor, University of Nottingham, Uglješa Grušić, Lecturer, University College London, Christian Heinze, Professor, Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz University Hannover, Louise Merrett, Reader in International Commercial Law, University of Cambridge, Alex Mills, Reader in Public and Private International Law, University College London, Carmen Otero García-Castrillón, Professor of Private International Law, Complutense University of Madrid, Zheng Sophia Tang, Chair in Law and Commerce, Newcastle University, Katarina Trimmings, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, and Lara Walker, Lecturer, University of Sussex

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1:Definition, Nature and Scope of Private International Law
2:Historical Development and Current Theories
PART II: PRELIMINARY TOPICS
3:Classification
4:The Incidental Question
5:Renvoi
6:Substance and Procedure
7:The Proof of Foreign Law
8:Exclusion of Foreign Law
9:Domicile, Nationality and Residence
PART III: JURISDICTION, FOREIGN JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS
10:Jurisdiction of the English Courts-An Introduction
11: Jurisdiction under the Brussels/Lugano System
12:The Competence of the English Courts under the Traditional Rules
13:Stays and the Management of Parallel Proceedings
14:Limitations on Jurisdiction
15:Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments-An Introduction
16:Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: the Traditional Rules
17:Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments Under the Brussels/Lugano System
18:Foreign Arbitral Awards
PART IV: THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS
19:Contracts
20:Non-Contractual Obligations
PART V: FAMILY LAW
21:Marriage and Other Adult Relationships
22:Matrimonial and Related Causes
23:Declarations
24:Financial Relief
25:Children
26:Cross-border Surrogacy
27:Legitimacy, Legitimation and Adoption
28:Mental Incapacity
PART VI: THE LAW OF PROPERTY
29:The Distinction Between Movables and Immovables
30:Immovables
31:The Transfer of Tangible Movables
32:The Assignment of Intangible Movables
33:Corporations
34:Insolvency
35:Administration of Estates
36:Succession
37:Matrimonial Property
34:Trusts