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Enforcing a Money Judgment Abroad - The SIFoCC Memorandum

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Jane Lambert I am grateful to Mark Beer  for bringing the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts ("SIFoCC") and its Multilateral Memorandum on Enforcement   to my attention in a post on Linkedin.  Mark is now President of the International Association for Court Administration .  I first heard of him when he was Chief Executive of the English speaking common law courts in Dubai known as the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts which I first discussed in  DIFC Courts on   7 Jan 2011 JDSupra. SIFoCC was established at a meeting in London of judges of many of the world's commercial courts convened by Lord Thomas (former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales) in May 2017  (see History of SIFoCC ).  Its members include the Business and Property of Courts of England and Wales (see Jane Lambert Launch of a Judicial Superhighway 12 July 2017 IP Northwest), the Court of Session in Scotland, the High `Court of Northern Ireland, the US District C