ECJ DOCUMENT SERVICE CASE – POSTAL, AGENT CHOICE
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that hand-delivered and mailed legal papers have the same legal authority under European Union (EU) law. It says that if two sets of documents are sent by both means, their date of receipt depends on which arrived first. The court was advising in a Belgian case, where a Portuguese company Plumex was refused the right of appeal, because it missed a legal deadline. This depended on the date it lodged papers in the original case. After the refusal, Plumex argued its initial mailing of documents had been ...
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