Across two volumes and a Companion Volume, it contains high-quality and detailed analysis. Volume 1 deals with general principles, the effects of withdrawal by the United Kingdom from the European Union, foreign affairs and the conflict of laws, procedural issues relating to international litigation, jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitration. Volume 2 deals with a number of specific areas of law. It addresses family law, property law, succession and trusts, corporations and insolvency and the law of obligations. A Companion Volume considers in greater detail the transitional issues arising from the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union and the relevant EU legislation in a number of key areas.

This Third Cumulative Supplement brings the 16th edition up-to-date. It deals with developments since the publication of the 16th edition on October 2022.

Important developments considered in the Third Cumulative Supplement to the Sixteenth Edition include:

• New Rules and detailed analysis of the Hague Judgments Convention 2019 following its entry into force in the United Kingdom on July 1, 2025.
• Detailed commentary on the revisions to the grounds for service out of the jurisdiction and consideration of new cases applying these rules.
• Authorities on the enforcement of arbitration agreements.
• Analysis of new authorities on foreign affairs and the conflict of laws.
• Important new decisions on aspects of cross-border family law.
• New decisions on the interpretation of the rules on choice of law for contractual and non-contractual obligations and property.
• Consideration of case law on transitional issues arising following the withdrawal by the United Kingdom from the European Union.