The US Supreme Court held unanimously [opinion, PDF] Monday in Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon [SCOTUSblog materials] that the Hague Service Convention [text, PDF] does not prohibit service of process by ...

The backdrop for the discussion is Federal Rule of Civil Procedure ... for purposes of service under the Hague Convention for cases brought in China, the Chinese courts will not use electronic ...

Florida courts have also noted that the Hague Service Convention is "mandatory in all cases to which it applies" and that it "pre-empts inconsistent methods of service prescribed by state law." ...

The Hague Convention generally requires that court documents be sent to a specified Central Authority, which is then charged with serving defendants. The Plaintiffs bypassed service through the ...

A new Alberta Court Rule seeks to avoid an unfortunate implication that courts have read into the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Documents in Civil or ...

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THE HAGUE, April 13 ... the powers concerned that the court is now constituted. This notification is intended to take the place of a formal installation. The convention has not yet been signed ...

U.S. Dist. Ct. for S. Dist. of Iowa, 482 U.S. 522 (1987)) that Hague Evidence Convention procedures are not mandatory but only permissive, U.S. courts have conducted particularized comity analyses ...

The Ontario Court of Appeal has followed the Alberta Court of Appeal's reasoning in an earlier case holding that service of provincial process on defendants outside of Canada must comply with the ...

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines has deposited its instrument of accession to the Hague Evidence Convention, marking a significant step towards enhancing the administration of justice in ...