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BOOK REVIEW - CIVIL JURISDICTIONS AND JUDGMENTS IN EUROPE
CIVIL JURISDICTIONS AND JUDGMENTS IN EUROPE. Edited by H.D. Tebbens, T. Kennedy and C. Kohler. Butterworths, London (1992) x and271 pp., plus 130 pp. Appendices. Paperback £65.
This is a most welcome addition to the literature on the Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and Judgments. The Court of Justice organized a seminar in March 1991 to consider work and progress on the Convention; the papers delivered have been collected together and are now published in this handsome form. They amount to two dozen essays on various separate parts of the Conventions.
The particular value of these is that they are both insider and outsider material. Two of the contributors were judges of the court. Among these, it was reassuring to read that Mr Schockweiler takes the view, shared by some commentators in this country, that the
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