Nygh’s Conflict of Laws in Australia 11th ed

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This leading text provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the three main areas of private international law: jurisdiction, choice of law and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. The wide-ranging subject matter includes international commercial dealings and other civil obligations, administration of estates and succession, international child abduction, adoption, proof of foreign law, and the recognition of same-sex marriages. It covers the legislation and civil procedure rules of all Australian jurisdictions as well as important common law developments. The clear explanations of complex concepts make Nygh’s Conflict of Laws in Australia ideal for both legal practitioners and students of conflict of laws or private international law. 

The eleventh edition has been comprehensively revised and updated. It includes discussion and analysis of significant developments in the field, including: 

• reference to all High Court and intermediate Australian appellate court decisions on private international law since the last edition
• updated statutory references
• adoption by all jurisdictions of uniform rules for service of originating process outside Australia without leave
• the ever-expanding body of case law involving transnational litigation including in relation to exclusive jurisdiction clauses and arbitration agreements, anti-suit injunctions and the relatively new phenomenon of anti-enforcement injunctions
• an expanded chapter on the cross-vesting regime as between Australian courts
• developments from foreign jurisdictions including England, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Features

• Provides clear explanations of complex concepts
• Authoritative authors
• Comprehensive coverage
• Covers legislation and civil procedure rules of all Australian jurisdictions

table of content

Part I: General

Ch 1 Introduction to the Subject

Ch 2. Conflicts within Australia

Part II: Jurisdiction and Procedure

Ch 3. Jurisdiction in Personam

Ch 4. Interlocutory Relief

Ch 5. Federal and Admiralty Jurisdiction      

Ch 6. Cross-Vested Jurisdiction      

Ch 7. Forum Selection and Arbitration Agreements   

Ch 8. Restraint of Local Proceedings: Clearly Inappropriate Forum        

Ch 9. Restraint of Foreign Proceedings: Anti-Suit Injunctions

Ch 10. State Immunity, Act of State and Non-Justiciability

Ch 11. Evidence From and For Other Countries          

Part III: Choice of Law Generally

Ch 12. Choice-of-Law Theories       

Ch 13. Personal Connecting Factors: Domicile, Nationality and Residence          

Ch 14. Characterisation and the Selection of the Lex Causae

Ch 15. Renvoi and the Incidental Question  

Ch 16. Substance and Procedure    

Ch 17. The Pleading and Proof of Foreign Law            

Ch 18. The Exclusion of Foreign Laws and Institutions

Part IV: Obligations

Ch 19. Contracts 

Ch 20. Torts        

Ch 21. Restitutionary Claims and Equitable Obligations

Ch 22. Negotiable Instruments

Ch 23. International Monetary Obligations  

Part V: Family Law

Ch 24. The Meaning of Marriage    

Ch 25. The Creation of a Valid Marriage       

Ch 26. Principal Relief: Dissolution, Annulment, Declarations and Legal Separation             

Ch 27. Matrimonial Property and Financial Relief      

Ch 28. The Welfare of Children      

Ch 29. The Status of Children         

Ch 30. Adoption 

Ch 31. Mental Incapacity  

Part VI: Property

Ch 32. Property: Preliminary Matters           

Ch 33. Transactions Between Living Persons

Ch 34. Trusts       

Part VII: Corporations and Insolvency

Ch 35. Corporations         

Ch 36. Bankruptcy and Corporate Insolvency             

Part VIII: Devolution on Death

Ch 37. Administration of Deceased Estates  

Ch 38. Succession

Part IX: Arbitration

Ch 39. Choice of Law in Arbitration

Part X: Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Awards

Ch 40. Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments at Common Law      

Ch 41. Enforcement of Foreign Judgments by Statute

Ch 42 Enforcement of Judgments Within Australia

Ch 43 Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards