"To enforce the judgment" means to take actions or measures necessary to make sure that a court's decision or ruling is carried out and followed.
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Many court houses and public libraries have books on the small claims process and
on enforcing judgments (with books on the latter often entitled «creditor's rights»).
I have already referred to the fact that a jury trial was not an option in any case; and there will be no need to
enforce the judgment outside of the province.
What's important is to find out as much as you can, assess all the factors and obtain good and experienced legal advice to maximise the chances of
successfully enforcing a judgment.
If this step had been taken this would almost certainly have prevented the transfers to the wives and children, and secured assets against which to
enforce the judgment eventually obtained.
It is clear that a Korean court will not
enforce a judgment of a foreign court concerning a dispute that is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of Korea or a third country.
I can tell you that this comes as something of a surprise to those of us who practise in the area because we all gave our clients advice
about enforcing judgments based on the decision in Hickman.
We have also been assisting the Bank in
enforcing the judgment debt against specific assets of Sebastian both in this jurisdiction and abroad, including:
«Mr Malami informed us that President Buhari has directed the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, and other relevant agencies involved in the recovery of looted funds to promptly put the documents together with a view to fully and
promptly enforcing the judgment by Justice Shagari.»
An Ontario paralegal is hoping to help
creditors enforce judgments in their favour through an aptly named web site, publicexecutions.ca, that allows them to name and shame those who owe them money.
Politically, that looks more acceptable for everyone and it would still give us a pretty good result in terms of
enforcing our judgments around Europe.
If that happens, the creditor may be able to
enforce the judgment by repossessing your goods to sell and get their money back.
Jonathan Harris: Certainly historically, parties tended to consider that it was a reputable, independent system, expedient, and liked to be able to brandish their English judgment and say, «I've been vindicated in a reputable court of law» — even if they couldn't
enforce that judgment overseas.
We have also been helping the
bank enforce the judgment debt against specific assets of Sebastian both in this jurisdiction and abroad, including proceedings:
Rather, the Fair Credit Reporting Act notes that, once the credit bureaus insert a judgment, the judgment will remain until the statute of limitations for
enforcing the judgment expires.
This means that although you may be broke today, if you win the lottery tomorrow, your creditor can
still enforce its judgment against your winnings.
The tools that creditors may use to
enforce judgments vary from state to state, and California allows one of the worst ones, at least from a debtor's point of view: wage garnishment.
Kansas law provides for the assessment and collection of judgment interest at 8 percent per annum, however the IV - D program does not calculate or
enforce judgment interest.
A recent unreported decision (ENRC NV v Zamin Ferrous Limited [2015] JRC 217) has demonstrated the Jersey Royal Court's willingness to make disclosure orders not only to police post-judgment freezing orders but also to ensure that judgment creditors have all the information they need to
enforce their judgments worldwide.
If a creditor wants the option to
possibly enforce the judgments against land the debtor owns, the judgment must also be registered with the Lands Titles Registry.
Personal jurisdiction asks, «Does this court have the power to make and
enforce a judgment over the people involved in this case?»
Playboy will
strongly enforce its judgment and injunction against PlayBev / CirTran Beverage to stop Iehab Hawatmeh's companies from engaging in infringing and counterfeiting activities.
The machine world will have zero tolerance for running to the courthouse to file a pound of bound paper, waiting for years to get a court order, and then trying to
enforce the judgment only to find that the debtor has moved its assets to a non-cooperating jurisdiction.
Bayer's strongest argument in the Supreme Court's eyes was the policy argument that if federal courts do not
enforce their judgments denying certification, serial relitigation of class certification will result, and defendants will be forced to settle class actions.
Pursuant to CPR 74.9 (1), if the defendant has made an application to set aside an order registering a foreign judgment, no steps can be taken to
enforce the judgment until the application has been decided.
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.
She also represented clients in contentious interlocutory applications including seeking and defending applications for summary judgment, discovery, interrogatories, security for costs as well
as enforcing judgments through applications for garnishee orders, examination of judgment debtors and bankruptcy proceedings.
A party's ability to modify and
enforce judgments made in other states is often contingent on having the judgment «domesticated» so that it can be handled in Florida.
Method of
enforcing a judgment for possession of a property whereby a bailiff is authorised to evict people and secure against re-entry
He said, «President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all relevant agencies to compile documents on names of all looters with a view to
promptly enforcing the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the government to release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered.»
MIC sought to
enforce this judgment debt against Naftogaz's assets in England by obtaining (i) a freezing order against Naftogaz in relation to its shares in a UK oil company; (ii) a default judgment against Naftogaz in the sum of such debt («English Default Judgment»); and (iii) a third party debt order requiring share dividends due to Naftogaz to be paid instead to MIC and also a charging order in favour of MIC in respect of such shares.