Top 10 International Law Headlines from Europe Mourant du Feu & Jeune has recently made a successful application on behalf of its client, Mr Gary Kaplan, to secure the discharge of a saisie judiciaire obtained at the United States' behest freezing all his realisable property situate in Jersey. During the earlier part of the financial crisis the European Commission approved State aid for troubled banks (eg Northern Rock) under “Article 87(3)(c) EC Treaty and the Rescue and Restructuring Guidelines”. The European Patent Office (EPO) are introducing further restrictions on the filing of voluntary amendments from 1st April 2010. With the global credit crunch and the ensuing contraction in international trade, many container terminal operators are seeing a dramatic decline in volume and revenue figures. Legal systems are generally limited territorially. However, over centuries, private international law has developed rules permitting judgments of one country to be recognised or enforced in other countries. In Morgan Stanley & Co International Plc v China Haisheng Juice Holdings Co. Ltd. an English court has held that an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of the English courts in the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement ("Master Agreement") does not extend to claims against third parties to the Master Agreement, whether affiliates of a party or otherwise. Ofcom – the UK media and communications regulator – has announced plans for the enforcement of a new law which implements regulations concerning TV-type content online. The Republic of Malta consists of three islands, Malta , Gozo and Comino. They are situated in the center of the Mediterranean Sea , just 80 kilometers off the southern coast of Sicily , Italy . The climate is typically Mediterranean with mild winters, pleasant spring and autumn seasons and hot summers. The European Commission is investigating hundreds of web sites after 55% of the sites which it initially reviewed were failing to comply with consumer laws, such as the Distance Selling Directive, E-Commerce Directive and Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. In August 2009, we published a Law-Now article on the L’Oréal -v- eBay judgment. That case related to whether eBay should be liable for the sale of counterfeit products on its UK website, and the answer from the court was that it should not. | 
