the lodging of the document of itself renders the court seised, provided that the applicant has not subsequently failed to take the steps he was required to take to have service effected on the respondent
(order of 16 July 2015 in P, C-507/14, not published, EU:C:2015:512, paragraph 37)” (Emphasis by underlining added).….[29] “Article 16(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000, must be interpreted to the effect that the ‘time when the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document is lodged with the court’, within the meaning of that provision,
- Approved Judgment
- The Honourable Mr Justice Cobb:
- provided that the applicant has not subsequently failed to take the steps he was required to take to have service effected on the respondent
- the lodging of the document of itself renders the court seised, provided that the applicant has not subsequently failed to take the steps he was required to take to have service effected on the respondent
- is the time when that document is lodged with the court concerned, even if under national law lodging that document does not of itself immediately initiate proceedings.
- rejected state
- has been accepted and issued