European Union: Trials & Appeals & Compensation

The law in Cyprus on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments provides for various legal frameworks, the applicability of which depends on the originating country in which the judgment was issued.

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The qualification of a party as an SME or the submission of a declaration purporting to establish a party’s SME status pursuant to R. 370.8 RoP is not, in itself, sufficient to dispense with the obligation for said party to provide a security for costs in accordance with R. 158 RoP, if the requirements for the application of that rule are met.

The application of the Brussels I Regulation’s (BR) rules to defendants who are not domiciled in a Member State of the UPCA is limited to situations where this is appropriate, regardless of domicile (cf. 71b(2) BR). A prerequisite for accepting jurisdiction is that there must be a connection to the addressed court, which follows from Recitals 13-15 of the BR.

When deciding whether to allow a discretionary review, the Court of Appeal must consider whether the impugned order of the Court of First Instance is manifestly erroneous and whether the impugned order raises a fundamental question of law and its review is necessary to ensure a consistent application and interpretation of the Rules of Procedure or any other objective of the discretionary review (CoA, UPC_CoA_489/2024, order of 6 September 2024, Motorola v. Ericsson, para. 4; UPC_CoA_805/2025, order of 1 September 2025, Centripetal v. Keysight, paras. 8 and 11)

The French Court of Cassation has issued two landmark decisions addressing whether dual nationals can bring investment treaty arbitration claims against a state of which they hold nationality. These May 2026 rulings establish critical precedents for treaty interpretation under the Vienna Convention, particularly regarding the role of subsequent diplomatic agreements and the primacy of treaty text over general international law principles.

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A party may make an application for a confidentiality order pursuant to R. 262A.1 RoP if it is seeking protection for information that it is required to disclose under the operative part of a court decision. However, the application must be made during the proceedings on the merits if it can be reasonably foreseen that confidentiality issues will arise.

It was agreed that number of invalidity attacks should be limited to five or six and the number of auxiliary requests should be limited to about ten.