Registration and enforcement of judgments under the 2005 Hague Convention
4. After section 4A (enforcement of judgments, other than maintenance orders, under the Lugano Convention)(1) insert—
“Registration and enforcement of judgments under the 2005 Hague Convention
4B.—(1) A judgment which is required to be recognised and enforced under the 2005 Hague Convention in any part of the United Kingdom must be registered in the prescribed manner in the appropriate court, on the application of any interested party.
(2) In subsection (1) “the appropriate court” means—
(a)in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, the High Court;
(b)in Scotland, the Court of Session.
(3) A judgment which is required to be recognised and enforced under the 2005 Hague Convention must be registered without delay on completion of the formalities in Article 13 of the 2005 Hague Convention if the registering court considers that it meets the condition for recognition in Article 8(3) of the 2005 Hague Convention, without any review of whether a ground for refusal under Article 9 applies.
(4) The party against whom enforcement is sought shall not be entitled to make any submission on the application for registration.
(5) Where a judgment which is required to be recognised and enforced under the 2005 Hague Convention has been registered, the reasonable costs or expenses of and incidental to its registration shall be recoverable as if they were sums recoverable under the judgment.
(6) A judgment which is required to be recognised and enforced under the 2005 Hague Convention shall, for the purposes of its enforcement, be of the same force and effect, the registering court shall have in relation to its enforcement the same powers, and proceedings for or with respect to its enforcement may be taken, as if the judgment had been originally given by the registering court and had (where relevant) been entered.
(7) Subsection (6) is subject to section 7 (interest on registered judgments) and to any provision made by rules of court as to the manner in which and conditions subject to which a judgment registered under the 2005 Hague Convention may be enforced.”.
Section 4A was inserted by S.I. 2009/3131.