Brussels, 22/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - A national court is not obliged to pay the expenses of a witness examined at its request by a court of another member state, ruled the European Court of Justice on 17 February 2011 in Case C-283/09.
It was answering a question raised by a Warsaw court in Poland whether, under EU Regulation 1206/2001 (on cooperation among EU courts to obtain evidence for civil and commercial cases), the requesting court of another member state (Ireland, in this...