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Daan Beenders and Wouter Hofstee describe the relevance of
procedural law for strategic considerations in international
litigation. An example is the launching of a "torpedo" by
which a procedural party can pre-emptively influence the forum
where litigation will take place.
In this article, they discuss the use of the torpedo in cartel
damages cases before courts in the Netherlands, Germany and
England.
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