September 11-12, 2000
San Francisco, CA

Cross-border Consumer Disputes and the Hague Conference Proposals: Some Routes Forward

David Goddard
Barrister and Consultant
New Zealand Law Commission

Table of Contents

1. Cross-border consumer disputes and the Hague Conference proposals: some routes forward
2. Cross-border consumer disputes - the status quo
3. Cross-border consumer disputes - the Hague draft proposals
4. The elements of the current Article 7
5. Some concerns in relation to Article 7
6. Some concerns in relation to Article 7 (cont)
7. Some possible routes forward
8. The Geneva proposal
9. The Ottawa proposal
10. A consensus convention
11. Implications of consensus convention for consumer disputes
12. A consensus convention...
13. Cross-border consumer disputes and the Hague Conference proposals: some routes forward