Jurisdiction: Out of place

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | May 2016 #176
Matthew Howson examines the lessons from Winkler v Shamoon [2016] ‘The presence of an Israeli estate, Israeli personae and all the other claims in Israel meant that Israel was clearly the most natural and convenient forum for the claim.’ Sami Shamoon (Mr Shamoon) had a remarkable life. Born in the 1930s to an Iraqi Jewish …

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Insolvency: Universalism? Not in my back yard

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | The Commercial Litigation Journal | January/February 2013 #47
Chris Webber looks at recent case law on the recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings Universalism has never become an overarching guiding principle to be applied in novel or marginal cases.The UK Supreme Court’s recent decision in Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2012] has halted the march towards (modified) universal recognition of all aspects of foreign insolvency …

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