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In this chapter the Liechtenstein court system is explained with emphasis placed on its appeal system. Subsequently the chapter addresses referral proceedings under Liechtenstein procedural law: must the parties be heard before a court decides to refer a case to the EFTA Court; can a court’s decision to refer be appealed; can legal aid be granted for the referral proceedings; which bodies may refer; whether under Liechtenstein law there is an obligation for Liechtenstein courts to refer to the EFTA Court; and are the EFTA Court’s advisory opinions binding under Liechtenstein law? Subsequently, the chapter will go on to the author’s personal experience of referral procedures and provides a table which gives a brief overview of all the references made to the EFTA Court, to-date, which have been made by Liechtenstein courts.
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These laws can be downloaded free of charge in their up-to-date German wording on the Internet at www.gesetze.li.
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Case E-4/09 Inconsult Anstalt v. Finanzmarktaufsicht (‘Inconsult’) [2009–2010] EFTA Ct. Rep. 86, paragraph 23.
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Case E-4/09 Inconsult, cited above paragraph 24.
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Case E-23/13 Hellenic Capital Market Commission, [2014] EFTA Ct. Rep. 88, paragraph 34.
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Case E-23/13 Hellenic Capital Market Commission, cited above, paragraph 39.
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Case E-9/14 Proceedings concerning Otto Kaufmann AG (‘Otto Kaufmann AG’) [2014] EFTA Ct. Rep. 1048, paragraph 29.
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Case E-9/14 Otto Kaufmann AG, cited above, paragraph 30.
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Consultation Report of the Government dated 11 July 2006, file no. RA 2006/1865-1601/1623, page 32, and Report and Motion of the Government dated 30 April 2007, file no. BuA 2007/53, page 47.
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Decision of the Austrian Supreme Court dated 22 October 2007, file no. 1 Ob 90/07b.
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Order of the State Court dated 29 October 2013, file no. StGH 2013/44, consideration II/13.
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Judgment of 29 August 2014, not yet reported.
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See Supreme Court decision dated 6 December 2013, file no. 10 CG.2009.270-67.
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Case E-18/11 Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Ltd v. Kaupþing hf (‘Irish Bank’) [2012] EFTA Ct. Rep. 592, paragraph 58.
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Decision dated 7 April 2014, file no. StGH 2014/172, published in LES 2014, 148.
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See for example, Austrian Supreme Court 9 September 1997, file no. 10 ObS 294/97a.
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Order of the Supreme Court dated 2 May 2002, file no. 9 EU 2001.521-60, published in LES 2003, 189.
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Case E-18/11 Irish Bank, cited above, paragraph 58.
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[2013] EFTA Ct. Rep. 272.
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Order dated 19 February 2013, file no. 05 CG.2009.238-110.
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Order of the State Court dated 4 September 1998, file no. StGH 1998/11, published in LES 1999, 209.
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File no. 08 CG.2012.324-15.
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File no. 01 CG.2012.94-32.
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File no. 01 CG.2012.94-23.
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Judgment dated 2 September 2013, file no. StGH 2013/63.
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See for example Supreme Court judgments dated 6 December 2013, file no. 10 Cg.2009.270-67, considerations 9 and 10.3.3.7, published in LES 2014, 21, and 6 March 2015, File no. CO.2014.2, considerations 8.7.
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Ungerank, W. (2016). Liechtenstein Courts. In: Baudenbacher, C. (eds) The Handbook of EEA Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24343-6_15
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