The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1978] QB 708
[EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE]
HANDELSKWEKERIJ G. J. BIER B.V. AND ANOTHER v. MINES DE POTASSE D'ALSACE S.A.
[CASE 21/76]
1976 Nov. 30
Judge H. Kutscher (President), Judges A. M. Donner, P. Pescatore, J. Mertens de Wilmars, M. Sørensen, Lord Mackenzie Stuart and A. O'Keefe F. Capotorti (Advocate-General)
European Economic Community
— Action in tort
— Forum
— Pollution
— Discharge of industrial waste into river in one member state
— Damage occurring in another member state
— “Place where the harmful event occurred”
— Jurisdiction of member states' courts
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Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, art. 5 (3)