Kurz bude členěn do 4 výukových bloků s tímto zaměřením:

1) Úvod

a. Anglický právní systém: historie, struktura, soudnictví, právnické profese;

b. Common law a zákonodárství;

c. Právo a equity;

d. Zvláštnosti v systému soudnictví;

e. Trestní právo.

2) Soukromé právo

a. Kontrakty;

b. Delikty;

c. Společnosti;

d. Trusty.

3) Anglické mezinárodní právo soukromé

a. Jurisdikce;

b. Rozhodné právo.

4) Anglické mezinárodní právo soukromé a vybrané související procesní otázky

a. Zahraniční rozhodnutí;

b. Předběžná opatření;

c. Freezing orders;

d. Anti-suit injunctions.

The course consists of 4 classes each of 2 hours

Class 1

· English legal system: history, structure, courts, legal professions

· Common law v. statute law

· Law and equity

· Contrasting role of judiciary

Judge-made law plays an important role in English law. The first class will provide students with a contextual understanding of how English law has developed and how it is administered today.

The class will also provide a brief introduction to criminal law and to constitutional law (the United Kingdom is most unusual in having no written constitution).

Class 2

· Contract

· Tort

· Companies

· Trusts

The class will provide an introduction to the all-important main topics of English civil and commercial law.

Classes 3 and 4

· Jurisdiction

· Foreign judgments

· Interim measures: freezing orders; anti-suit injunctions

· Applicable law

The third and fourth classes will be devoted to English private international law following Brexit (civil and commercial).

Until Brexit, England had two parallel systems governing jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments, the Brussels-Lugano regime and a quite separate collection of rules for cases to which that regime did not apply. Now (nearly) all of the Brussels/Lugano rules have been repealed and the English rules have taken on a new and wider significance.

English law also contains two procedural instruments of particular significance in an international context, and the course will provide an introduction to these. On one hand, there are ‘anti-suit injunctions’ which were banned by the Brussels/Lugano regime, but which are once again available in respect of proceedings in other European countries; on the other hand, there are so-called ‘freezing orders’ which may can have a powerful effect in preserving assets in cross-border litigation.

The rules governing applicable law for contractual and non-contractual obligations, however, continue to be governed by the Rome I and Rome II Regulations – which will not form part of this course – but the course will cover the main areas of English choice of law rules falling outside those Regulations.