Jean-Pierre Bellecave

Former partner and co-founder of BCVLEX, now an external consultant.

 Jean-Pierre was admitted to the Bordeaux Bar (1981) and to the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados in Madrid. He has been a partner since 1984 in both general practice and in relation to international legal issues. In this same international field, he has been notably involved in civil liability and contract law cases and disputes.

Jean-Pierre Bellecave has provided, on numerous occasions, an assistance and defence activity in matters of aviation liability. This type of case have allowed him to have a leading role in the conduct of the related legal proceedings, in the interest of the victims of air transport. It is also in this context that he has regularly had the opportunity to intervene in the conduct and coordination of legal proceedings initiated in France and/or abroad (notably in the United States, Egypt, Algeria, the Union of the Comoros, Bahrain, Spain).

With nearly 35 years of professional experience as a lawyer, he has also regularly provided assistance to associations of victims of collective accidents in an international context, in particular through negotiation with various insurance entities.

Jean-Pierre, along with his colleagues, has worked on numerous cases whose legal/judicial solutions constitute precedents of principle in terms of jurisdictional jurisdiction and applicable law, always and in particular in cases of air transport accidents.

Jean-Pierre Bellecave has been a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), Global Justice Network (GJN), PanEuropean Organization of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL) and the Bordeaux Institute of Personal Injury (IDC).

Jean-Pierre Bellecave speaks Basque, French, English and Spanish.

Publications

• Bellecave, Jean-Pierre and Villacorta Salís, Carlos, ” Convention de Montréal et forum non conveniens. An example of how the absence of transnational dialogue between judges undermines the fluidity of justice“, Revue des Transports, 2012 (10), pp. 143-153.