CISG CASE PRESENTATION

Germany 16 September 1992 District Court Berlin (Children's shoes case)
[Cite as: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cases/920916g1.html]

Primary source(s) for case presentation: CISG online case overview; Unilex abstract; case commentary

Case Table of Contents

• Case identification
• Case abstract
• Classification of issues present
• Editorial remarks
• Citations to case abstracts, texts, and commentaries
• Guide to links contained in case presentations

Classification of issues present

APPLICATION OF CISG: Yes [Article 1(1)(a)]

APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES

Key CISG provisions at issue: Articles 38(1) ; 39(1)

Classification of issues using UNCITRAL classification code numbers:

38A1 [Buyer's obligation to examine goods: as soon as practicable in the circumstances];

39A [Requirement to notify seller of lack of conformity: buyer must notify seller within reasonable time]

Descriptors: Examination of goods ; Lack of conformity notice, timeliness

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English: Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=88&step=Abstract>

Italian: Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (1995) 443-444 No. 59

CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION

Original language (German): cisg-online.ch <http://www.cisg-online.ch/cisg/urteile/49.htm>; Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=88&step=FullText>

Translation: Unavailable

CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION

English: Curran, 15 Journal of Law and Commerce (1995) 175-199 [196-198] [English summary of comments by Witz cited below]; for a survey of close to 100 judicial and arbitral rulings on Article 39(1), go to the 1998 Pace essay on this subject by Camilla Baasch Andersen; CISG-AC advisory opinion on Examination of the Goods and Notice of Non-Conformity [7 June 2004] (this case and related cases cited in addendum to opinion); Henschel, The Conformity of Goods in International Sales, Forlaget Thomson (2005) 156

French: Witz, Les premières applications jurisprudentielles du droit uniforme de la vente internationale (L.G.D.J., Paris: 1995) 89-91, 100

German: Piltz, Int. Kaufrecht (1993) 194 No. 59 = Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1994, 1101 [1104 n.57]

Spanish: Piltz, La Ley (Buenos Aires: 5 September 1994) 1-4 n.40