FORUM SHOPPING: UNACCEPTABLE PRACTICE?

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Authors	BOHŮNOVÁ Petra
Year of publication	2009
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	COFOLA 2009: the Conference Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Law
Citation
Field	Law sciences
Keywords	Forum shopping choice of venue plaintiff; defendant legal certainty unification basis of jurisdiction
Description	This contribution deals with legal international forum shopping. Firstly, the term forum shopping is defined. Then, various forms of forum shopping are introduced. Afterwards, positives and negatives of forum shopping are presented and evaluated. Subsequently, the possibilities of reduction of forum shopping and its necessity are discussed. Finally, the stated hypothesis is confirmed.
Related projects:	The European Context of the Development of Czech Law after 2004