Application to enforce Dubai finding of personal liability for dishonoured company cheques – basic rule that a final and conclusive foreign judgment for a debt or definite sum of money given by a court of competent jurisdiction may be enforced by a claim in England, unless it is impeachable on grounds set out in later Rules. Rule 51 is: ‘A foreign judgment is impeachable on the ground that the enforcement or, as the case may be, recognition, would be contrary to public policy.’
Lord Justice Lewison
[2021] EWCA Civ 770
Bailii
England and Wales
Updated: 15 June 2021; Ref: scu.662662 br>