The coming into force of the new Romanian Civil Procedure Code, on February 15th 2013, has resulted in new rules on the civil trial with a foreign element, repealing the last remaining articles of Law no. 105/1992. This paper is the eighth of a series which aims to provide a general analisys of the new legal provisions, correlating them with the former regulation and relevant jurisprudence, as well as the European legislation with which it mi...

The article investigates legal controversies arisen in practice regarding the status of creditors who benefit from a mortgage on the banking account of the debtor, when in concurrence with other creditors who aim to recover their receivables from the same person. With a special view at forced execution and insolvency procedures, the authors provide an analysis of the different approaches used by bank-account mortgagees in order to justify their...