[Resources at the outset: (1) The Hague Conference has published a highly anticipated Guide to Good Practice on the use of video-links in cross-border depositions. Handy stuff, and available for no cost in PDF form here. (2) As of summer 2020, Viking Advocates has suspended work in evidence compulsion, but we can happily refer
You’ve served the complaint on all of your defendants, they’ve entered their appearances, and everybody is girded up for battle. Discovery commences. In one of your depositions, you learn that one of the defendants was somehow selling a knock-off of your client’s product through a German distributor, and you are convinced that somewhere in that
You’ve served the complaint on all of your defendants, they’ve entered their appearances, and everybody is girded up for battle. Discovery commences. In one of your depositions, you learn that one of the defendants was somehow involved in a business arrangement with a French entity, and you are convinced that somewhere in that company’s vast
It certainly wasn’t a slow weekend in global politics. New Zealand’s exceedingly popular Prime Minister announced his retirement, Austria’s voters barely shunned a return to power by the hard right, and Italians rebuffed an arguably critical spate of constitutional reforms, prompting the resignation of their own popular PM. So, what to make of these stories
Rule #1 in pursuing discovery in other countries: stop calling it discovery. It’s evidence taking or, in many instances, evidence compulsion. Why? Because foreign legal systems, especially those in the civil law tradition, take a dim view of American-style discovery. When a U.S. litigator comes at them with a subpoena, walls get
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Of the three dozen or so Hague Conventions (specify which one you mean, counsel!), the United States is party to only a few. Among the most productive and useful are the Service and Apostille Conventions. And although it is helpful, the Hague Evidence Convention is not the great and wonderful
[Originally published at vikinglaw.us]
My newsfeed has been jam-packed with Brexit stories since England & Wales voted to quit the European Union (for the record, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted overwhelmingly to remain—and this will have additional effects on the state of the UK). On the morning of the result, I gave a CLE
