Reciprocal enforcement of judgments in Abu Dhabi and ADGM free zone: a new Memorandum of Understanding («MoU») sets out the framework for the
reciprocal enforcement of judgments, decisions and orders and the arbitral awards ratified or recognised by the onshore civil law courts in Abu Dhabi and the common law courts in Abu Dhabi's financial free zone, ADGM.
Extending the certainty offered under regimes such as the Alberta
Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act to all international arbitral awards is not only beneficial because it ensures regulatory consistency, but would also be commercially desirable, helping to avoid costly litigation such as the case at issue here.
However, even where statutory enforcement regimes like Alberta's
Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act ensure procedural certainty for a certain delineated sub-set of international arbitral awards, the unclear procedural status of international arbitral awards, in general, continues to affect international arbitral awards not covered by the respective enforcement regime.
Alberta's
Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act (the «Act») provides a relatively simple process for enforcement of money judgments granted in Canadian provinces (except Quebec), select U.S. states, and Australia.
In defence of the Uniform Enforcement Act, it was intended to provide a quicker and simpler method of enforcing Canadian judgments across the country than does
the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act.
i) Few provinces have
reciprocal enforcement of judgment agreements with foreign states, and not very many states when they do.
Not exact matches
She adds that «Nigerian courts are eager to enforce arbitral awards and the regulatory framework under the New York Convention and Foreign
Judgments (
Reciprocal Enforcements) Act largely favours
enforcement of foreign awards».
First, unless the defendant, anonymous Twitter user, resides in Canada (where there is a bilateral
reciprocal enforcement of foreign
judgments treaty with the UK), the service out
of the jurisdiction without prior leave
of the court will require a letter
of request / letters rogatory (particularly if he / she resides in the U.S.).
According to them, the Bank's aim was to enforce the
judgment in the DIFC and then take it for execution in the Dubai Courts, relying on the
reciprocal enforcement mechanisms available under Article 7
of the Judicial Authority Law (these provide for the mutual
enforcement of judgments between the DIFC Courts and the Dubai Courts).
An alternative would be for the UK to enter into bilateral arrangements with EU Member States under the Administration
of Justice Act 1920 or the Foreign
Judgments (
Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933.
For legislated arrangements, there is the Uniform
Enforcement of Judgments Conventions Act that allows conventions on the (reciprocal if desired) enforcement of judgments to be added to a schedule by
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judgments to be added to a schedule by regulation.
I suspect that far more jurisdictions have direct arrangements for
reciprocal enforcement of support orders than they have for civil
judgments.
I believe Mr. Semenoff is wrong in saying that a Canadian provincial court would enforce only U.K. civil
judgments (because
of the Canada - UK
Reciprocal Enforcement Convention from the 1980s, legislated into effect in all the common - law provinces.)
The Court stated that a foreign
judgment can not be directly enforced in Ontario in the absence
of reciprocal enforcement legislation.
However, the Foreign
Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933 provides for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards (and court judgments) in former Commonwealth c
Judgments (
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judgments) in former Commonwealth countries.