UK accedes to Hague Judgments Convention

Peter Hale Cross-Border, Enforcement

Today, it is not just the weather that is extremely hot, but also the anticipation, as the United Kingdom’s hotly-anticipated ratification of the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (“the Hague Judgments Convention”) takes effect and the Convention enters into force in England and…

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Foreign Judgments Part 2: A Practical Guide to Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

Peter Hale Cross-Border, Enforcement, Judgments Regulation

In Part 2 of this two-part series on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, Alex Cornelius provides practical guidance on how judgments obtained in foreign courts can be enforced in England and Wales under the pre-Brexit European provisions, specific statutory regimes and the common law. Part 1 of this series, considering the decision of Kerr…

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Foreign Judgments Part 1: Olsen v Finansiel Stabilitet A/S [2025] EWHC 42 (KB)

Peter Hale Brexit, Cross-Border, Enforcement, Judgments Regulation, Limitation Periods

In Part 1 of this two-part blog series on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, Alex Cornelius outlines the recent decision of Kerr J in Olsen v Finansiel Stabilitet A/S [2025] EWHC 42 (KB). Part 2 will provide a helpful practical guide to the main avenues for enforcing foreign judgments in England and Wales. Olsen…

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Brexit and the Government White Paper: Are the Civil Judicial Cooperation plans Realistic?

James Beeton Brexit, Enforcement

In this blog, which follows on from Philip Mead’s recent post explaining the legal implications the Government’s recent White Paper (Cm 9593), Patrick Vincent suggests that the Lugano Convention has been wrongly worded and wrongly translated – but that even if corrected it will not help the UK achieve post-Brexit civil judicial cooperation with the…

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