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Excite significant opposition. If the result of that opposition is likely to be non-ratification by significant trading States, the issue might be better avoided; the risk of undesirable outcomes if the convention adopts an inappropriate rule. Some legal rules do little damage, even if they are not optimal – this is especially true of default rules that apply to dealings between sophisticated parties, who can adopt different rules if they want to depart from the default rule. But other rules have the potential to cause serious economic or social harm, if they are framed or applied inappropriately.
Differs from a European perspective, or from a North American perspective, or even from an Asian perspective? I should make clear, at the outset, that I cannot and do not purport to speak for all Pacific States – or even for the Government of my own country, New Zealand. Nor is there any reason to expect that the region would have a single, homogenous view on each and every issue relevant to the proposed convention. What I hope to do is to identify some characteristics of the region which are likely to colour the views Yearbook of Private International Law, Volume 3 (2001) 31 David Goddard of Pacific States in relation to the convention – and to explore where, in my personal opinion, those observations might take us.
Nadler,55 concluded that the purpose behind the bankruptcy exception was to have proceedings concentrated in the country where the insolvency was opened and that accordingly, in the present case, the Norwegian courts should not interfere with the Italian proceedings. This was a majority decision, the minority being of the opinion that the claim itself did not relate to bankruptcy and could be decided under the contract forum of Article 5(1), albeit that eventually – at the enforcement stage – an Italian court might not accept the applicability of the Lugano Convention.