As noted above, in order for a foreign judgment to be recognised and
enforced at common law, it must be final, binding and conclusive.
However, on 5 December, the Court of Appeal led by Chief Justice Pereira JA agreed that a purposive interpretation of Part 7.3 (5)(b) should be deployed and that the provision should be read as granting permission to enforce any judgment or arbitral award made «by a foreign court or tribunal and amenable to be
enforced at common law».
Not exact matches
And this is the problem: the measures he proposes would and could only be
enforced at the cost of massive violations of human rights, and by dismantling the fragile but promising structures of technological know - how, international
law, trade, and communication by which we are building up a still - feeble sense of what it means to be a single humanity on a single globe, under God and responsible for a
common world.
«They do not
enforce it
at all,» said Paul Brown, president of the Buffalo Building Trades Council, who lobbied the
Common Council to pass the
law in 2006.
Those rules either don't apply online, or even if they do, they're not
enforced, so it creates a huge problem where people are being advertised to and they don't know who the source is and how much money is being spent,» says Pal, who is director of the public
law group
at the faculty of
common law at University of Ottawa.
As Lord Kerr explained (
at [68]-RRB-: «Courts exist in order to ensure that the
laws made by Parliament, and the
common law created by the courts themselves, are applied and
enforced».
Might it not be argued — especially in light of their treatment (
at least
at common law) as contract debts for limitations purposes — that the proceedings to
enforce them are distinct from the underlying activity that gave rise to the dispute?
Pursuant to section 24 (1) of the Limitation Act 1980, the limitation period to commence a claim to
enforce a foreign judgment
at common law is six years from the date of the foreign judgment sought to be recognised and
enforced.
In order to recognise and
enforce a judgment
at common law, the party seeking enforcement (the claimant) must commence a new claim (by issuing a Claim Form) as one would for any other claim.
For over 500 years
at common law a tenant has been able to
enforce the right of possession.