Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments

by Adrian Briggs

Overview

Now in its eighth edition, this well-established and respected book by Adrian Briggs continues to deliver a full and complete statement of English law on civil jurisdiction and judgments. As the United Kingdom will now not be re-joining the Lugano Convention, the treatment of judgments from EU Member States and the Lugano States has been reduced, and the jurisdictional rules of Brussels/Lugano regime are now dealt with only in outline. This eighth edition untangles and re-ties the loose ends left over from the process of disengagement from the European Union and restates the law of jurisdiction and judgments as it must be understood today.

Significant new material includes an expanded treatment of the increased opportunities for service out of the jurisdiction with and without permission, and of the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention, in effect for the United Kingdom from 1 July 2025. Otherwise recent developments – of which there have been many – across the field of jurisdiction and judgments in civil and commercial matters, are examined in proper detail.

This rigorously updated new edition reasserts its position as an authoritative and comprehensive reference for all lawyers and legal practitioners working in the broad area of commercial litigation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032768984
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2025
Series:	Lloyd's Commercial Law Library
Edition description:	8th ed.
Pages:	898
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adrian Briggs, KC is Emeritus Professor of Private International Law, University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and a Bencher and Barrister at Middle Temple.

Table of Contents

Preface. 1. An introduction to the law of jurisdiction 2. Where jurisdiction does not or cannot exist 3. Choice of court agreements: common law principles 4. Choice of Court Agreements: the 2005 Hague Convention 5. Jurisdiction (I): by service on defendant in England 6. Disputing the jurisdiction established by service in England 7. Jurisdiction (II): service on defendant outside England where permission not required 8. Jurisdiction (III): service on defendant outside England with permission 9. Disputing the jurisdiction of the English court 10. Domicile and Jurisdiction within the United Kingdom 11. Cross-border procedural matters 12. Injunctions to prevent foreign proceedings and procedures 13. Other counter-measures against wrongful foreign proceedings 14. Foreign judgments: recognition and enforcement at common law 15. Foreign judgments registrable under the 1920 and 1933 Acts 16. Foreign judgments registrable under the 1982 Act 17. Foreign judgments taking effect under the Brussels and Lugano rules 18. Arbitration 19. Brexit. Appendix I: Convention on Choice of Court Agreements. Appendix II: Convention on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in civil or commercial matters

Editorial Reviews

"This impressive work of scholarship... this book is to be welcomed as a definitive work on how civil judgments are enforced internationally when you are talking about — and involved with — inter-jurisdictional matters. Every practitioner, particularly those specialising in international private law, should have a copy." Phillip Taylor MBE, Richmond Green Chambers

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