CHAPTER 1

THE CONFLICT OF LAWS

Yvonne Baatz

1. Introduction 2
2. Arbitration 4
3. Court jurisdiction 10
(a) The Jurisdiction Regulation and the Recast Regulation 11
(i) A jurisdiction clause 13
(ii) Multiple proceedings 16
(iii) Related actions 21
(iv) No jurisdiction clause 23
(v) Contract claims 24
(vi) Tort claims 27
(vii) Agency 29
(viii) Remuneration for salvage of cargo or freight 30
(ix) Multiple defendants 30
(x) Third party proceedings 31
(xi) Limitation 32
(xii) Other international conventions 32
(b) Common Law 34
(i) Forum non conveniens 35
(ii) Jurisdiction agreement 37
(iii) Tonnage limitation 40
(c) Anti-suit Injunctions 41
(d) Damages for Breach of a Jurisdiction Agreement 42
4. Governing Law 43
(a) The Rome Convention 44
(i) The scope of the Rome Convention 45
(ii) Freedom of choice 47
(iii) Limits on party choice 50
(iv) No choice 53
(v) Public policy 55
(b) Rome I 55
(i) The scope of Rome I 55
(ii) Freedom of choice 56
(iii) Provisions which cannot be derogated from by agreement in a domestic
contract 57
(iv) Community law in a domestic contract 58
(v) Overriding mandatory provisions 58
(vi) Public policy 58
(vii) International conventions 59
(viii) Community law 59
(c) The common Law 60
(d) Sections 9 to 15 of the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions
Act) 1995 60