Sentences with phrase «european civil law systems»

Contrary to most European civil law systems, clients of solicitors and barristers in England and Wales are protected by a fundamental right to withhold confidential communications with their lawyer from the court, as an exception to onerous obligations of disclosure not seen in civil law jurisdictions.

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The French influence is most clearly demonstrated by the adoption of the civil law by most countries in the region, similar to those in European states, rather than the common law system in the UK.

Researchers can also contact the IBA's Multi-Jurisdictional Class Action / Collective Redress Working Group and its Task Force on International Procedures and Protocols for Class Actions (see their Guidelines for Recognising and Enforcing Foreign Judgments for Collective Redress); the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (Class Actions and Mass Torts); the Oxford Centre for Socio - Legal Studies, European Civil Justice Systems; the Searle Civil Justice Institute at George Mason University's Law & Economics Center (SCJI); and check the Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (Stanford Law School)-RRB-.

Christopher Hodges & Rebecca Money - Kyrle, European Civil Justice Systems: Safeguards in Collective Actions (The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, 2012).

Additionally, the European system of discovery is fundamentally very different as they operate for the most part under a civil law system while the US relies on common law.