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The realities of a global marketplace and shrinking political borders mean that the application and reach of law are seldom confined to a province, a country or even a continent. The field of conflict of laws, also known as private international law, concerns the mechanisms for addressing crossjurisdictional legal conflicts in regard to 3 major areas:
Newly and thoroughly revised, Halsbury's Conflict of Laws (2020 Reissue) analyzes and explains the broad range of conflict questions and rules impacting Canada's 14 jurisdictions, including issues such as:
- Criteria for exercising
- Consent, including attornment, agreement and persons protected from waiver of access to their local courts
- Defendant's forum
- Class proceedings
- Real and substantial connection to forum
- Discretion in exercising jurisdiction
- Limits on jurisdiction, including state, diplomatic, consular, procedural and jurisdictional immunity
- Service outside the jurisdiction
- Security for costs
- Injunctions
- Letters rogatory, including obtaining evidence and interprovincial subpoenas
- Marriage
- Divorces and corollary relief
- Matrimonial property
- Legitimacy, adoption, and parentage
- Custody, access and guardianship
- Support orders
- Mentally incapable adults
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