[Hague-jur-commercial-law] Press on The Hague Special Commission Meeting Dec1-9, 2003

[Judith Sapp]

The proposed treaty relates to all disputes arising from
business-to-business contracts that contain exclusive choice of court
clauses.

Best regards, Judith

Judith Sapp
Komondorok LLC
111 West Street
Portland, Maine 04102
United States of America

207.842.6003  Telephone
207.842.0743  Facsimile
judith@judithsapp.com  Email


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:hague-jur-commercial-law-admin@lists.essential.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Sondow
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 5:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Hague-jur-commercial-law] Press on The Hague Special
Commission Meeting Dec1-9, 2003



Manon Ress wrote:
> 
> Warren's Washington Internet Daily
> Wednesday December 10, 2003
> Vol. 4, No. 237
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> E-Commerce Disputes
> 
> Talks on Intellectual Property Issues To Resume Next Year
> 
> Intellectual property (IP) issues remained unresolved Tues. as delegates
> at Special Commission of the
> Hague Conference on Private International Law meeting scurried to find
> common ground on a treaty aimed
> at harmonizing jurisdiction in e-commerce contract disputes.

This must be an error on the part of the author, D. Standeford. The
Hague Convention isn't "a treaty aimed
at harmonizing jurisdiction in e-commerce contract disputes". It relates
to "disputes", period. 

Furthermore, I was under the impression, apparently mistaken now, that
e-commerce disputes were going to be left out of this treaty, by common
consensus. Isn't that what was agreed upon when the delegates decided to
negotiate an abbreviated treaty?

This is all rather confusing, frankly. Can someone straighten it out? Is
e-commerce now part of the treaty? Is it the whole treaty? What's going
on here?

M. Sondow
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