Module 29 - Choice of Law in Tort
Topics
- Common law choice of law rule in tort
- Statutory choice of law rule in tort
- Rome 2 Regulation
- Temporal application
- Application within the United Kingdom
- Scheme and scope of Rome 2 Regulation
- Civil and commercial matters
- Non-contractual obligations
- Acta iure imperii
- Revenue, customs or administrative matters
- Evidence and procedure
- Exclusions
- Universal application
- Renvoi
- Scope of applicable law
- Freedom of choice
- Rights of third parties
- Implied choice
- Anti-avoidance
- Miscellaneous
- General rule for tort
- Product liability
- Competition law
- Environmental damage
- Intellectual property right infringement
- Industrial action
- Unjust enrichment
- Negotiorum gestio
- Culpa in contrahendo
- Direct action against insurer
- Subrogation
- Contribution and indemnity between defendants
Cases
- Arab Monetary Fund v Hashim [1996] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 589 CA
- Bacon v Nacional Suiza Cia Seguros Y Reseguros SA [2010] EWHC 2017 (QB)
- Bata v Bata [1948] WN 366 CA
- Boys v Chaplin [1971] AC 356; [1969] 3 WLR 322 HL
- Case C-172/91 Sonntag v Waidmann [1993] ECR I-1963 ECJ
- Case C-189/87 Kalfelis v Bankhaus Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst and Co.; [1988] ECR 5565 ECJ
- Case C-21/76 Handelskwekerij G. J. Bier BV v Mines de potasse d’Alsace SA ECJ
- Case C-220/88 Dumez France SA v Hessische Landesbank; [1990] ECR I-49 ECJ
- Case C-265/02 Frahuil SA v Assitalia SpA [2004] All ER (EC) 373; [2004] EUECJ C-265/02; [2004] ECR I-1543 ECJ
- Case C-292/05 Lechouritou v Germany [2007] ECR I-1519 ECJ
- Case C-814/79 Netherlands State v Reinhold Rüffer [1980] ECR 3807 ECJ
- Diamond v Bank of London and Montreal [1979] QB 333 CA
- Hamawoo v GMF Assurance SA [2010] EWHC 1941 (QB)
- Harding v Wealands [2007] AC 1; [2006] 3 WLR 83 HL
- Jacobs v Motor Insurers Bureau [2010] EWCA Civ 1208; [2011] 1 WLR 2609 CA
- Jacobs v Motor Insurers Bureau [2010] EWHC 231
- Kingspan Environmental Ltd v Borealis A/S [2012] EWHC 1147 (Comm)
- Laws v Lloyd's [2003] EWCA Civ 1887
- Metall und Rohstoff AG v Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. [1990] 1 QB 391 CA
- Phillips v Eyre (1870) LR 6 QB 1
- Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA [1995] 1 AC 190 PC
- Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd [2001] 2 AC 127 HL
- Sandisk Corporation v Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV [2007] EWHC 332 (Ch)
- Sinclair v Brougham [1914] AC 398 HL
- The Goring [1988] 2 WLR 460 HL
- Three Rivers DC v Bank of England (No.3) [2003] 2 A.C. 1 HL
- Trident Turboprop (Dublin) Ltd v First Flight Couriers Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 290; [2010] Q.B. 86; [2009] 3 W.L.R. 861 CA
- Vita Food Products Inc v Unus Shipping Co Ltd [1939] A.C. 277 PC
- Walford v Miles [1992] 2 AC 128 HL
- Westdeutsche Landesbank Girocentrale v Islington LBC [1996] AC 669 HL
