Therefore, the homologation process in Ecuador implies that the party that
seeks the enforcement of a foreign award shall file a petition with the Provincial Court8, which will assess whether the award complies with the following requirements: (i) The international award complies with the formalities required for it to be considered authentic in the state where it was issued; (ii) The award is final and binding in the jurisdiction where it was delivered and the attachments are duly legalized; (iii) With regard to the requirement prescribed in the Convention, if the award is in a language other than the official language of the country, in this case Spanish, it shall incorporate a translation; (iv) It is shown from the legal papers of the arbitration proceedings that the party against whom the awards is being enforced was duly notified of the claim and that there was no due process violation; (v) The petition must specify the domicile of the party against whom the award is being enforced.
A party
seeking enforcement of a foreign award needs to supply to the court (a) the arbitral award and (b) the arbitration agreement (Article IV).
Not exact matches
This includes applications for interim relief in support
of arbitrations (e.g. anti-suit injunctions);
seeking or resisting
enforcement of domestic or
foreign awards under the New York Convention; and challenging or defending
awards under sections 67, 68 and 69
of the 1996 Act.
In some circumstances, other international treaties, or the domestic law
of the country where
enforcement is
sought, will also apply to the question
of whether a
foreign arbitral
award should be recognized and enforced.
However, the proposition that the damages
sought in the Canadian proceeding must relate directly to the commercial activity at issue raises a troublesome question: can the commercial activity exception properly apply to the
enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral
awards?
In reality, this reservation is more theoretical than anything else, because codified French arbitration law itself does not contain any such limitation, and article VII (1)
of the Convention confirms that the Convention does not deprive parties
of more favourable rights they might enjoy under the law
of the country in which
enforcement of the
foreign award is
sought.
As Lord Mance observed: «Security pending the outcome
of foreign proceedings is, in effect, the price
of an adjournment which an
award debtor is
seeking, not to be imposed on an
award debtor who is resisting
enforcement on properly arguable grounds».
If the
award is subject to an action for setting aside in the country in which, or under the law
of which, it is made («the country
of origin»), the
foreign court before which
enforcement of the
award is
sought may adjourn its decision on
enforcement (Article VI).
Recognizing the growing importance
of international arbitration as a means
of settling international commercial disputes, the Convention on the Recognition and
Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the Convention) seeks to provide common legislative standards for the recognition of arbitration agreements and court recognition and enforcement of foreign and non-domestic arbit
Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the Convention) seeks to provide common legislative standards for the recognition of arbitration agreements and court recognition and enforcement of foreign and non-domestic arbitral
Foreign Arbitral
Awards (the Convention) seeks to provide common legislative standards for the recognition of arbitration agreements and court recognition and enforcement of foreign and non-domestic arbitral a
Awards (the Convention)
seeks to provide common legislative standards for the recognition
of arbitration agreements and court recognition and
enforcement of foreign and non-domestic arbit
enforcement of foreign and non-domestic arbitral
foreign and non-domestic arbitral
awardsawards.