Traduction de «poursuite en responsabilité délictuelle » (Français → Anglais) :

tort proceeding

actionable in tort

sue in tort for damages

tort claim [ delict claim ]

tort liability | liability in tort

In tort cases concerning product liability, the law is determined by the habitual residence of the person sustaining the damage.

Other Member States' laws do not contain any provisions on unfair competition applicable to parasitic copying and such matters are dealt with by the Civil Code, either in specific provisions (Italy), or by the provisions generally applicable to tort (France, The Netherlands).

The latter initiative — on which the Council agreed a common approach already in April 2008 — is intended to harmonise national provisions on public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment and training of terrorists, so that these forms of behaviour are punishable throughout the EU also when committed through the Internet, and to ensure that existing provisions on penalties, liability of legal persons, jurisdiction and prosecution applicable to terrorist offences apply also to such forms of behaviour.

In this area, if all the states in Australia took on proportionate liability but New Zealand stayed with joint and several liability, I cannot see how a plaintiff who had suffered loss in Australia as the result of negligence of the Australian office of an international accounting firm could bring proceedings in New Zealand and try to take advantage of joint and several liability there because, both in New Zealand and here, and also in Canada as the result of a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada last year, in any interstate or international tort claim one looks primarily to the law of the place where the tort was committed.