Jurisdiction

Abstract

This chapter discusses the items of private international law of jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters, which were governed in part by a number of European Regulations and other instruments prior to Exit Day. These include the Brussels I Regulation 44/2001 and the recast Brussels I Regulation 1215/2012; the 1988 Lugano Convention and the 2007 Lugano II Convention; and the 1968 Brussels Convention as amended from time to time. According to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI 2019 No 479, on Exit Day these instruments are revoked or, in the case of the Conventions given effect by the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, as amended, repealed.