The Everlasting Bureau of the HCCH is happy to announce the launch of a public session on the Draft Textual content of a attainable new conference on parallel proceedings and associated actions, to be held from 18 November 2025 to 26 January 2026.
Consultants, practitioners and judges from various authorized traditions with expertise in cross-border litigation and personal worldwide legislation extra broadly are inspired to take part within the session.
In 2021, the HCCH established a Working Group on issues associated to jurisdiction in transnational civil or industrial litigation (WG), comprised of over 60 subject-matter consultants from throughout the globe. The WG, after 9 conferences, has developed a Draft Textual content containing provisions geared toward addressing parallel proceedings and associated actions going down in a number of States, acknowledging the first roles of each jurisdictional guidelines and the doctrine of discussion board non conveniens. The target of this future instrument could be to boost authorized certainty, predictability, and entry to justice by lowering litigation prices and mitigating inconsistent judgments in transnational litigation in civil or industrial issues.
The general public session seeks suggestions on whether or not the Draft Textual content would, in follow, help in addressing such issues and the way the provisions within the Draft Textual content might be improved. The session is supported by a Session Paper comprising an Government Abstract, an in depth clarification of the important thing provisions and the operation of the Draft Textual content, and particular questions. Responses obtained from this session will probably be submitted to all HCCH Members for consideration prematurely of the following assembly of the Council on Normal Affairs and Coverage (CGAP), the governing physique of the HCCH, in March 2026, at which the Members of the HCCH will resolve on the following steps for the undertaking.
For extra data on the general public session, please go to: https://www.hcch.internet/en/tasks/legislative-projects/jurisdiction/public-consultation
This put up is revealed by the Everlasting Bureau of the Hague Convention of Non-public Worldwide Legislation (HCCH).
