On 3 July 2000 France presented an initiative for a Council Regulation on
the mutual enforcement of judgments on rights of access to children (6).
For the avoidance of doubt, where the UAE has entered into an applicable treaty for
the mutual enforcement of judgments, orders or awards the DIFC Court shall comply with the terms of such treaty.
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).
Not exact matches
In a related but separate move, the DIFC Courts have published a guide for law firms and business on the
mutual recognition and
enforcement of monetary
judgments in China and Dubai.
The Riyadh Convention is a treaty for the
mutual enforcement of judgements but in my view, it is not an applicable treaty for this purpose, since neither the Claimant, the DIFC Court nor the UAE is seeking to enforce a
judgment in Iraq, at least at this stage.
Enforcement and sanctions imposed by the Greek authorities are not effective in other jurisdictions unless they meet the requirements
of mutual assistance in criminal matters and
mutual recognition
of judgments through bilateral and multilateral treaties.
The recognition and
enforcement of judgments given in a Member State should be based on the principle
of mutual trust and the grounds for non-recognition should be kept to the minimum required.
The SPC judge also suggested that the standards set out in
mutual judicial assistance agreements could be useful in drafting standards for reviewing the recognition and
enforcement of foreign
judgments.
One
of those discrete developments is the cooperation agreement that the Shanghai Higher People's Court and Dubai International Finance Centre Court signed in October 2016 (reported here), which must have required the concurrence
of the SPC.. The other discrete development is the memorandum
of understanding on legal and judicial cooperation between the SPC and Singapore Supreme Court, signed in August 2017, relating to
mutual recognition and
enforcement of monetary
judgments, judicial training for judges, and the Belt & Road initiative.
Likewise in civil justice, choice
of jurisdiction together with
mutual recognition and
enforcement of judgments (as well as equivalent arrangements in family law) are in the UK's interest as well as in the EU's interest post-Brexit.