Foreign Judgements Business men trading abroad will welcome the report
of Lord Justice Greer's Committee on the reciprocal enforcement of foreign judgements. They often have a difficulty in obtaining from a foreign country the satis- faction to which they are entitled under a decision of our own courts. On the other hand, foreign traders find it none too easy to secure the enforcement in this country' f the decrees of their courts. What is wanted, in Lord Justice Greer's view, is a convention with Continental countries, beginning with France, Belgium and 'Germany, which would virtually place them in this matter on a par with the Dominions and Colonies, for whom the question was regulated by an Act of 1920. A decision of a French, Belgian or German Court in a trading case would be recognized here, just as a decision of our High Court would be recognized there. The simplest way to effect this would seem to be a general convention negotiated through the League of Nations. -
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