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CISG-online number
4430
Case name
Italian marble case
Jurisdiction
Egypt
Court
Court of Cassation (Egyptian Supreme Court)
Date of decision
11 April 2006
Case nr./docket nr.
No. 979 of Judicial Year 73
Claimant 1
Name
Mondeal Granite Company
Place of business
Italy
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Name
Golden Marble for Marble and Granite
Place of business
Egypt
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Italian marble case
Court of First Instance South Cairo
Egypt, 24 December 2002, CISG-online 4367
Italian marble case
Court of Appeal Cairo
Egypt, 24 August 2003, CISG-online 4402
affirming
Present decision reversing and remanding
Seller 1
Name
Mondeal Granite Company
Place of business
Italy
Buyer 1
Name
Golden Marble for Marble and Granite
Place of business
Egypt
Category of goods
27: Crude fertilizers, other than those of division 56, and crude minerals (excluding coal, petroleum and precious stones)
Goods as per contract
Marble
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
CISG applied
yes
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 1(1)(a); Art. 4; Art. 7; Art. 8(1); Art. 11; Art. 13
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
060411e1
Comments on this decision 4
Marwa AlSherif, 'The Application of the CISG by the Egyptian Courts: Egypt’s Court of Cassation Case No. 2490 of Judicial Year 81, Rendered on 23 June 2020', 1 Journal of Law in the Middle East (2021), 129–134, at 134 [– in English]  
Amin Dawwas & Yousef Shandi, 'The Applicability of the CISG to the Arab World', 16 Uniform Law Review/Revue de droit uniforme (Unif. L. Rev.) (2011), 813–841, at 823–824 [– in English]  
Amin Dawwas, 'CISG-Applicability before National Judiciary in Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar and Jordan', 8(1) Access to Justice in Eastern Europe (AJEE) (2025), 1–35, at 18–19 [– in English]  
Hossam A. El-Saghir, 'The Interpretation of the CISG in the Arab World', in: André Janssen & Olaf Meyer (eds.), CISG Methodology, Munich: Sellier. European Law Publishers (2009), 355–374, at 364–365 [– in English]
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Full text of decision
Original language: Arabic
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Language: English
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