Court of Justice 24 November 2005, C-3/05 (Gaetano Verdoliva v J. M. Van der Hoeven BV, Banco di Sardegna and San Paolo IMI SpA.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I – Introduction 1. In the present case the Corte d’Appello di Cagliari requests the Court to interpret Article 36 of the Convention of 27 September 1968 on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (hereinafter ‘the Convention’).