Fundamental rights and judicial cooperation in the decisions of the Court of Justice on the Brussels I Regulation 2009-2014 : the story so far

Gillies, Lorna; Morano-Foadi, S and Vickers, L, eds. (2015) Fundamental rights and judicial cooperation in the decisions of the Court of Justice on the Brussels I Regulation 2009-2014 : the story so far. In: Fundamental Rights in the EU. Modern Studies in European Law . Hart, Oxford, pp. 211-229. ISBN 9781782258902

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Abstract

Ever since the enactment of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), fundamental rights have operated at and between national and EU law. With the enactment of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (the Charter) via, inter alia, Article 67, Title V of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), a further layer of fundamental rights has emerged. The Charter addresses the protection of six key rights, one of which is justice.