Jurisdiction under the Hague Convention on choice of court agreements: a critique

The Convention of 30 June 2005 on Choice of Court Agreements enteredinto force in 28 Contracting States, including Mexico and all the Member States of theEuropean Union, except Denmark, on 1 October 2015. Singapore ratified the Conventionon 2 June 2016 and the Convention applies between Singapore and the otherContracting States from 1 October 2016. The Convention was drafted with ambitiousgoals to increase judicial co-operation on issues of jurisdiction and recognition andenforcement of foreign judgments. Having examined provisions of the Conventionrelation to the jurisdictional issue, however, the authors argue in this article that theseprovisions are likely to produce outcomes that are in stark contrast with the overallgoal of the Convention