Given the inherent limitations of the Muscutt
jurisdictional analysis, the author suggests that courts should return to a pre-Muscutt approach to determining jurisdiction simpliciter.
The author argues that the Muscutt factors have obscured what the Supreme Court intended to be the core of
the jurisdictional analysis: the need for a real and substantial connection, in the sense of a link or nexus, between the action and the forum.
UK, EU and multi-jurisdictional merger control — advising on all aspects of merger control from initial
jurisdictional analysis to seeking UK and EU clearances and coordinating multi-jurisdictional filings.
Similarly, a defendant's contact with a third party with no connection to a forum state isn't relevant to
the jurisdictional analysis.
Under conflict of laws analysis, choice of forum and choice of law are conceptually distinct; albeit the latter is one, among a number of factors in
the jurisdictional analysis for consent - based jurisdiction (the «strong cause» test) and the discretionary forum non conveniens test.
Not exact matches
Rental income on the property being vacated, reduced by the appropriate vacancy factor as determined by the
jurisdictional FHA Homeownership Center (see http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/ref/sfh2-21u.cfm) may be considered in the underwriting
analysis under the following circumstances:
access to defamation specialists throughout Canada, the United States, and in Europe for collaboration, investigation, depositions, and for legal
analysis of
jurisdictional and other issues.
The Court rejected the appellants» argument that the application of Trillium required «a broader, more contextual
analysis when assessing the place of the contract for purposes of a
jurisdictional determination.»
by Felipe Mutis Tellez The report
analyses SCC Board decisions on
jurisdictional objections during 2010 - 2012.
In summary, as the
analysis will be subsequently focus on the
jurisdictional question, the AG favours a more or less full protection of a company's personality rights under Article 16 and 17 of the EU Charter (paras 41 - 51) but also stresses that companies enjoy certain rights under national statutory law, which is why the question does not require addressing in the first place (paras 52 - 60).
However, take away the
analysis and the commentary and publishers of law reports are, in my view, still providing value added — especially in the
jurisdictional law reports such as the DLRs — simply by virtue of selecting which cases to publish.
The court also corrected the trial judge's conclusion that allegations of abuse were not relevant to the
jurisdictional issue, noting that such allegations are relevant to the s. 23
analysis regarding «serious harm.»
Amended Rule 37 (e) attempts to resolve a major circuit split and other
jurisdictional variations in spoliation sanctions
analysis in favor of a new, clarified rule.
Despite Bastarache and LeBel JJ's description of the distinction between
jurisdictional and non-
jurisdictional errors (and the courts approach to determining which category a given error fell into) as «formalistic» and «artificial» (at [43]-RRB-, the way this distinction has developed in Australian law in recent decades in fact shares much in common with the standard of review
analysis described in Dunsmuir.
[19] The court further reminded the district courts that, as a
jurisdictional prerequisite, they must «set forth a sufficient correct legal basis and
analysis» to indicate how the circuit court's decision departed from the essential requirements of the law.
The
analysis becomes a lot more straightforward when one follows the Harmar majority in starting with the
jurisdictional questions.