Merchant International Co Ltd v Natsionalna Aktsionerna Kompaniia Naftogaz Ukrainy – WLR daily

Merchant International Co Ltd v Natsionalna Aktsionerna Kompaniia Naftogaz Ukrainy: [2012] EWCA Civ 196;  [2012] WLR (D)  51

“An English court was entitled to consider whether a foreign judgment obtained in a Convention state had contravened the Human Rights Convention where there was strong factual evidence to rebut the presumption that the procedures of other Convention states complied with article 6. Where a judgment in default had been obtained on a debt established in a foreign final judgment of a Convention state, on an application to set aside the default judgment on the basis of a later judgment of that Convention state given in flagrant breach of article 6, it was a proper exercise of the discretion under CPR r 13.3 to refuse to set aside the default judgment.”

WLR Daily, 29th February 2012

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