An English Speaking Commercial Court in the Netherlands
Amsterdam Photo Massimo Catarinella Source Wikipedia Creative Commons Licence Jane Lambert In Paper 2 of the Brexit papers Access to the EU legal services market The Bar Council Brexit Working Group reminded us that "the UK legal services market is a significant revenue generator for the Exchequer, worth £25.7 billion in total, employing approximately 370,000 people. Much of its work comes from overseas: "In 2015, of the 1,100 cases registered at the Commercial Court, more than two-thirds had one non-UK based party to proceedings." That would probably be true of the Patents Court where the world's leading pharmaceutical and consumer electronics companies settle their disputes and to a large extent the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Net exports of legal services generated an estimated £3.3 billion in 2015. Even though it is more expensive to litigate in common law countries than in most civil law jurisdictions businesses...