UK court must rule in Cartier-Ziegler case

The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a dispute that began in 2008 between the French company Cartier parfums-lunettes SA and the transporter Ziegler France over the theft of a consignment of goods on British territory (resulting in ?145,000 of damage) should be dealt with by the United Kingdom (Case C-1/13). Ziegler France initially took the case to an English court to assess the damage, while Cartier and Axa Insurance took the matter to a French court one…