Event

Cross-Border Civil Judicial Litigation: Service of Documents and Taking of Evidence

Objective

This course provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU and international regime on service of documents and taking evidence in cross-border civil ligation. It covers the EU Service and Evidence Regulations as well as their Hague Conference equivalents.

Key Topics

Participants will have the opportunity to learn the following:

• the scope of application of both the Service and Evidence Regulation
• which are the main innovations brought by the 2020 updated versions of the Service and Evidence Regulations
• the different possibilities offered by the Service Regulation to serve documents in other Member States
• the Brussels I bis Regulation’s alternative path to the Evidence Regulation to take evidence in another Member State
• the differences between the EU instruments on service and evidence and their counterparts of the Hague Convention.

Who should attend?

• lawyers and other private legal practitioners who deal with cross-border claims;
• in-house legal counsels in corporations;
• bailiffs and other civil enforcement agents;
• judges and court clerks;
• civil servants in governmental institutions working in the field of cross-border judicial cooperation.

Details on the program, fee and registration can be found on the course website.