CELEX: 62014CA0489
Language: en
Date: 2015-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-489/14: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 6 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Family Division — United Kingdom) — A v B (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility — Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 — Lis pendens — Articles 16 and 19(1) and (3) — Judicial separation proceedings in a first Member State and divorce proceedings in a second Member State — Jurisdiction of the court first seised — Concept of ‘established’ jurisdiction — Lapse of the first proceedings and commencement of fresh divorce proceedings in the first Member State — Consequences — Time difference between the Member States — Effects on the procedure for seising the courts)

23.11.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 389/11
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 6 October 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Family Division — United Kingdom) — A v B
   (Case C-489/14) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Judicial cooperation in civil matters - Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility - Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 - Lis pendens - Articles 16 and 19(1) and (3) - Judicial separation proceedings in a first Member State and divorce proceedings in a second Member State - Jurisdiction of the court first seised - Concept of ‘established’ jurisdiction - Lapse of the first proceedings and commencement of fresh divorce proceedings in the first Member State - Consequences - Time difference between the Member States - Effects on the procedure for seising the courts))
   (2015/C 389/12)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Referring court
   
   High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Family Division
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: A
   
      Defendant: B
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   In the case of judicial separation and divorce proceedings brought between the same parties before the courts of two Member States, Article 19(1) and (3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000, must be interpreted as meaning that, in a situation such as that at issue in the main proceedings in which the proceedings before the court first seised in the first Member State expired after the second court in the second Member State was seised, the criteria for lis pendens are no longer fulfilled and, therefore, the jurisdiction of the court first seised must be regarded as not being established.
   
      (1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2015.