This volume contains a selection of the relevant documents, including the working documents and minutes of discussions, pertaining to the so-called "Judgments Project" on which the Hague Conference carried out work from 1992 up to and including the First Part of the Nineteenth Session of the Conference, which took place from 6 to 22 June 2001. These negotiations did not produce a Convention. While it may seem unusual to publish a tome of the Proceedings dedicated to what did not become a Hague Convention, the importance of the work accomplished on the Judgments Project is readily apparent when one considers the scope and depth of the materials collected in this volume. Furthermore, a large portion of this work constitutes the groundwork for what was to become the 2005 Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, as well as for the continuation of the Judgments Project since 2010.

This set collects the three volumes of the HccH's Proceedings of the Twentieth Session (2005). Volume 1 includes general information such as membership of the delegations and the minutes of the Opening and Closing Sessions. The complete text of the Final Act of the Twentieth Session appears thereafter. This is followed by the preliminary documents, the conclusions of the Special Commissions of 2003, 2004 and 2005 on General Affairs and Policy of the Conference, together with the working documents and minutes of the First Commission, which dealt with these questions at the Plenary Session. Volume II contains a selection of the relevant documents, including the working documents and minutes of discussions, pertaining to the so-called "Judgments Project" on which the Hague Conference carried out work from 1992 up to and including the First Part of the Nineteenth Session of the Conference, which took place from 6 to 22 June 2001. Volume III contains most of the relevant documents and minutes of the discussions of the Twentieth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, dedicated to the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, which took place from 14 to 30 June 2005. It encompasses only the documents directly related to the final text of the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements. The documents concerning the initial phase of the so-called "Judgments Project", which took on a new direction in 2002, are published in Tome II of the Proceedings of the Twentieth Session. This volume contains the preliminary documents and working documents, among which the Report drawn up by Andrea Schulz which contextualises the change in direction decided upon with regard to the Convention along with the initial stages of the new working routes, as well as a number of reports of the meetings of the Working Group charged with the question and the successive draft Convention texts. The principal working documents and reports of the meetings of the Special Commission of 2003 and 2004 are also included, exceptionally, in this volume, accompanied by the conclusions reached by the participants in these two meetings. [Subject: Private Law, International Law]

This publication is the first in a series of three volumes entitled Proceedings of the Twentieth Session (2005). It includes at the start general information such as membership of the delegations and then the minutes of the Opening and Closing Sessions. The complete text of the Final Act of the Twentieth Session appears thereafter. This is followed by the preliminary documents, the conclusions of the Special Commissions of 2003, 2004 and 2005 on General Affairs and Policy of the Conference, together with the working documents and minutes of the First Commission, which dealt with these questions at the Plenary Session.