Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments at common law. Time to move forward?
Prof. Gerry Maher
University of Edinburgh
United KingdomThursday, 12 September – 2:00 pm
Room W 401, Faculty of Law – Professor-Huber-Platz 2, 80539 Munich–
This paper will focus on the approach taken by the common law of the UK legal systems to the recognition and enforcement of external judgments. Two factors justify this particular focus. The first is the uncertainty in the post—Brexit era of the UK making any agreement with the EU which would apply a modified or bespoke version of the Brussels I bis Regulation on the enforcement of judgments. The second is the difficulty of predicting the success of the 2018 Draft Hague Conference Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, both in terms of consensus on a final draft of the Convention and the likely geographical scope of its ratification and accession.
The consequence is that in the UK common law procedures for recognition and enforcement will be increasingly resorted to for some time to come.
Practice does not make perfect: Rethinking the doctrine of ‘the proper law of the contract’ – a case for the Indian courts
Dr. Saloni Khanderia
O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana
IndiaThursday, 12 September – 2:00 pm
Room V 002, Faculty of Law – Professor-Huber-Platz 2, 80539 Munich–
Every contract with a transnational element calls for the determination of the law that would govern the transaction in the event of a dispute on the matter between the parties. In most civil law jurisdictions, and the United Kingdom, which is a common law system, the rules to identify the governing law has been codified – contributing to much certainty and predictability. At the same time, jurisdictions like India have continued to embrace the traditional precepts of the English common law even after the United Kingdom’s ratification to the Rome I Regulation on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations, 2008 (Rome I).