Few things in transnational litigation are as vexing or as unnecessarily frightful as the Letter Rogatory. Honestly, they’re not that complicated—they just have a few necessary elements that many practitioners miss, and because they’re signed by the judge, we worry. A lot. Perhaps this will shed some light…
What is it?
Black’s Law Dictionary
We aren’t doing brain surgery here. But we are tending to a sprained ankle of sorts, and if you don’t tend to it properly, the pain gets worse down the road. Serving process in the Netherlands is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless
We aren’t doing brain surgery here. But we are tending to a sprained ankle of sorts, and if you don’t tend to it properly, the pain gets worse down the road, especially if the road is cobbled. Italian roads? Frequently cobbled and uneven.
Fortunately, though, serving process in Italy happens within the strictures of
We are not building rockets here. But we are building a ship, of sorts, and a leaky ship makes it tough to get your cargo to its destination. To make it in Hong Kong, you also need a highly sophisticated motor scooter, and if the bad guys are coming after you with a helicopter,
(Author’s Note, February 2024: A whole bunch of litigators have successfully petitioned U.S. courts for orders to serve in China electronically pursuant to Rule 4(f)(3). This is a horrible, terrible, very very bad idea. Why? Because it conflicts violently with the Hague Service Convention. Don’t even bother, lest you set yourself up for a
We aren’t building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and a leaky vessel means the cargo may not make it to its destination. Serving process in England & Wales is subject to the strictures of the Hague Service Convention, regardless of which U.S.
I say all the time that we aren’t building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and a leaky vessel means the cargo may not make it to its destination (yes, I know Switzerland is landlocked…
(Hint: there’s only one valid way to go about it. One.)
I say all the time that we aren’t building rockets here. But we are building an airship of sorts, and if you use the wrong kind of stuff to make it go up, bad things happen. Do it the right way, and
I say all the time that we aren’t building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and a leaky vessel means the cargo may not make it to its destination. Serving process in France is subject
My BusOrg professor in law school was a bigtime Boston Red Sox fan. We didn’t hold it against him at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, because we sort of knew the pain Sox fans had felt for so long (they went 86 years between World Series titles; the Royals only went thirty, but
