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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Greece: A Forum Favorable to Optional Choice of Court Agreements

Author : Georgios Panopoulos

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Abstract

The Greek legal order of domestic origin reserves a friendly treatment to choice of court agreements, without prejudice to concerns of protection for presumptively weaker parties. The Brussels I Convention and Regulations have come to perfect this protection, leading to asymmetrical optional choice of court agreements, in favor of such parties, without impairing the validity of agreements in the presence of parties of presumptively equivalent negotiation force.

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Footnotes
1
See e.g. Athens Court of Appeal (CA) 6177/1975, Armenopoulos [Thessaloniki Bar Law Review] (Arm.) 1976, 406.
 
2
See Athens CA 5744/1976, Nomiko Vima [Athens Bar Law Review] (NoV) 1977, 397.
 
3
Areopage [the Greek Supreme Court for civil and criminal matters] 196/1974, NoV 1974, 1063.
 
4
Areopage 755/1993, Ephimeris Ellinon Nomikon [Journal of Greek Lawyers] (EEN) 1994, 529; also e.g. Athens CA 4609/2012 & 5973/2013, NoV 2014, 581, note P Giannopoulos.
 
5
Areopage 12/1986, NoV 1986, 1239.
 
6
Brinias (1983), p. 22.
 
7
Athens CA 2556/1980, NoV 1980, 1547; 10683/1986, Elliniki Dikaiossini [Law Review of the Association of Judges] (EllDni) 1987, 890.
 
8
See all judgments referred to herein with regard to Greek law of national origin and more generally (and with critique) Chr. Tsouka (1990), pp. 13–35.
 
9
See also Sect. 1.3.3.2 below.
 
10
See in general Doris (1988).
 
11
See Athens multimember Court of First Instance (CFI(m)) 2919/1982, EllDni 1983, 122; also Thessaloniki CA 9/1998, Episkopissi Emporikou Dikaiou [Commercial Law Review] (EpiskED) 1999, 130: insurance policy.
 
12
In casu the employee, Piraeus single-member Court of First Instance (CFI(s)) 1079/1979, Epitheorissi Naftiliakou Dikaiou [Maritime Law Review] (END) 1979, 562.
 
13
Areopage 339/1986, NoV 1987, 33, where the choice of court clause was contained in an individual contract of employment of a Greek worker in Saudi Arabia; and the revirement jurisprudentiel by the Full Court of Areopage 4/1992, NoV 1992, 707.
 
14
See e.g. Athens CA 2466/1985, EllDni 1985, 725.
 
15
See e.g. Athens CA 4262/1990, EllDni 1991, 576.
 
16
Chr. Tsouka (1990), p. 50.
 
17
Cf. Areopage 1542/2014, NoV 2015, 276; also 313/2009, Dikaio Epikhirisseon & Etairion [Business and Company Law Review] (DEE) 2009, 828; 1697/2013, Chronika Idiotikou Dikaiou [Private Law Review] (ChrID) 2014, 371.
 
18
Cf. also ECJ 16.3.1999, Castelletti, C-159/97, ECR I 1597.
 
19
See Papassiopi-Passia (1990), pp. 641 et seq.
 
20
See Sect. 1.1.2 above.
 
21
See Sect. 1.1 above.
 
22
See e.g. Piraeus CA 854/2006, END 2007, 107; Piraeus CFI(m) 4635/2008, Efarmoges Astikou Dikaiou [Civil Law Review] (EfAD) 2009, 446, comm. A. Gova.
 
23
See Kerameus et al. (1989) art. 18 n° 11; arg. ECJ 13.7.2000, Josi, C-412/98, ECR Ι 5925.
 
24
See Areopage 1542/2014, ChrID 2015, 25.
 
25
See Areopage 8/2015, EfAD 2015, 914.
 
26
See Sect. 1.1.2 above.
 
27
See e.g. Athens CA 6359/2003, EllDni 2004, 1466; 676/2009, EllDni 2009, 559; 4467/2010, DEE 2011, 218.
 
28
On the jurisdictional protection of weaker parties see Sect. 2.5 below; on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments rendered in violation of a choice-of-court agreement see Sect. 2.6 below.
 
29
See Sect. 2.5.2 below.
 
30
See Sect. 2.5.3 below.
 
31
On the modifications regarding the specific jurisdictional protections for consumers and employees see Sect. 2.5.4 below.
 
32
See under the Brussels Convention ECJ 3.7.1997, Benincasa, C-269/95, ECR Ι 3767, and under the Greek Code of Civil Procedure Athens CA 4340/1988, EllDni 1990, 377.
 
33
ECJ 9.12.2003, C-116/02, ECR Ι 14693.
 
34
Applying this provision see e.g. Piraeus CA 501/2001, END 2001, 437.
 
35
On the rationale of this change see Areopage 1219/2001, EllDni 2001, 1609.
 
36
See ECJ, 20.5.2010, Bilas, C-111/09, ECR Ι 4545.
 
37
See Sect. 1.3.3.3 above.
 
38
See Sect. 1.1.2 above.
 
39
See Sect. 2.5.3 above.
 
40
See Sects. 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.4 above.
 
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Metadata
Title
Greece: A Forum Favorable to Optional Choice of Court Agreements
Author
Georgios Panopoulos
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Optional Choice of Court Agreements in Private International Law

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-23913-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-23914-5

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23914-5_10