Download or read book Foreign Law in Civil Litigation written by Sofie Geeroms and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an analysis of how foreign law should be pleaded and dealt with in the litigation process of another country. What weight should the trial court give to the relevant foreign law, and how should it decide what the foreign law actually is? The way foreign law is procedurally treated in court indicates to a certain extent the degree of tolerance of a legal system towards foreign ideas. The book compares how these issues are handled in different national systems, with particular focus upon civil litigation rules in the US, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium.