Clifford Chance

How English judgments will be enforced in the EU post Brexit

30 April 2021

There is a prevalence in international agreements of parties electing to resolve their disputes before the English courts.

It is therefore unsurprising that of the many questions that clients have to face in the aftermath of Brexit, one of the most common is whether their English judgment will continue to have the same value in Europe and how will they enforce it?

For the reasons further explained, clients can rest easy that in practice English law and the decisions of the English courts will still be upheld, albeit using different routes. 

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