Switzerland:
The Scope Of Due Service Of Process: Swiss Law Considerations On The Enforcement Of Foreign Default Judgments
14 February 2019
Prager Dreifuss
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Obtaining a final and binding judgment ordering the adversary
party to pay a substantial sum to the claimant may raise the hope
to have arrived at the end of a dispute. However, more often than
not, the losing party fails to comply with the judgment, leading to
necessary enforcement actions. After providing an overview of the
basic mechanisms of recognition and enforcement under Swiss
law, Christian Casanova and Andreas
Schregenberger discuss practical issues arising in this
context based on two recent decisions from the Swiss Federal
Tribunal concerning the enforcement of a default judgement rendered
from a court in the United Arab Emirates.
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