1996 Ottawa, ON Civil Section Documents - The Interprovincial Enforcement of Non- Money Judgements

In order for the estoppel to operate, the person claiming the estoppel must show:17 1) that the same question has been decided; 2) that the judicial decision which is said to create the estoppel is final; 3) that the parties to the judicial decision or persons cliaming through them were the same persons as the parties to the proceedings in which the estoppel is raised or their privies; and 4) that. [...] The first, the Brussels Convention, was designed to provide the framework for the enforcement of judgments between the members of the European Economic Community.22The second, the Hague Convention,23 which was intended to be adopted more widely. [...] Section 51 gives the Commonwealth Parliament the power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to (xxv) The recognition throughout the Commonwealth of the laws, the public Acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of the States. [...] (1) Upon lodgment of a sealed copy of a judgment, or a fax of such a sealed copy, the prothonotary, registrar or other proper officer of the appropriate court in a State other than the place of rendition must register the judgment in the court. [...] If a judgment is registered in a court of a State under subsection 105 (1), the courts of the State must not, merely because of the operation of a rule of private international law, refuse to permit proceedings by way of enforcement of the judgment to be taken or continued.