Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance

Islamic banks in the world are performing very well in the financial market. They are complying with Shar‘ah requirements while investing money in business. Nowadays, they are also investing money in foreign countries. This is known as cross border transaction. There is some risk and litigation prob...

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Main Authors: Jalil, Md. Abdul, Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/5704/
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spelling iium-57042011-11-21T23:36:07Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/5704/ Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance Jalil, Md. Abdul Ansari, Abdul Haseeb K Law (General) Islamic banks in the world are performing very well in the financial market. They are complying with Shar‘ah requirements while investing money in business. Nowadays, they are also investing money in foreign countries. This is known as cross border transaction. There is some risk and litigation problems in cross border transactions. If any dispute arises out of a cross border transactions, it should be referred to a court or an arbitration centre. Now the issue is which country’s court or arbitration centre will have jurisdiction to hear the dispute and give a decision or award? Another problem that may arise in cross border litigation is that of conflict of laws and choice of law issues. The parties involved in a contract are from different countries. The applicable laws might be substantially different between the countries. In that situation the question of which country’s law should be applied to solve the dispute is a complicated issue. When conflict of laws and conflict of jurisdictions are involved, another related legal issue may arise regarding enforcement of foreign judgments. In this paper these issues have been critically addressed and pragmatic suggestions have been offered. 2010 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/5704/1/Cross_Border_Litigation_in_IBF_A_Haseeb%5B1%5D.pdf Jalil, Md. Abdul and Ansari, Abdul Haseeb (2010) Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance. In: International Conference on Islamic Banking & Finance: Cross Border Practices & Litigations, 15-16 June 2010, IIUM Campus. (Unpublished)
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Jalil, Md. Abdul
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Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance
description Islamic banks in the world are performing very well in the financial market. They are complying with Shar‘ah requirements while investing money in business. Nowadays, they are also investing money in foreign countries. This is known as cross border transaction. There is some risk and litigation problems in cross border transactions. If any dispute arises out of a cross border transactions, it should be referred to a court or an arbitration centre. Now the issue is which country’s court or arbitration centre will have jurisdiction to hear the dispute and give a decision or award? Another problem that may arise in cross border litigation is that of conflict of laws and choice of law issues. The parties involved in a contract are from different countries. The applicable laws might be substantially different between the countries. In that situation the question of which country’s law should be applied to solve the dispute is a complicated issue. When conflict of laws and conflict of jurisdictions are involved, another related legal issue may arise regarding enforcement of foreign judgments. In this paper these issues have been critically addressed and pragmatic suggestions have been offered.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Jalil, Md. Abdul
Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
author_facet Jalil, Md. Abdul
Ansari, Abdul Haseeb
author_sort Jalil, Md. Abdul
title Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance
title_short Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance
title_full Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance
title_fullStr Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance
title_full_unstemmed Cross border litigation in Islamic banking and finance
title_sort cross border litigation in islamic banking and finance
publishDate 2010
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/5704/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/5704/1/Cross_Border_Litigation_in_IBF_A_Haseeb%5B1%5D.pdf
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