Abstract
THE 1968 Brussels Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters is well-known to European lawyers practising before the national courts of the member states of the European Community. And if it is not, it should be. The Convention contains extremely important rules on jurisdiction and the enforcement of court judgments. A European litigant ignores these rules at his peril. The German courts have recently held that failure to take the Brussels Convention into account when bringing legal proceedings in a national court amounts to professional negligence by a practising lawyer; and no doubt the same result would obtain in all twelve Member States.1 With the 1988 Lugano Convention extending the Brussels Convention to the Member States of the European Free Trade Association, the Brussels Convention is also becoming a familiar text amongst lawyers in Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland practising before...
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