these
f
jever they may be situated. Some doubts have been
expressed on this, particularly on the EFTA side, and
one suggestion is that the right of extension should be
balanced by a right of any Contracting State to object
to that extension. Proposed language to give effect to
this suggestion appears in square brackets in paragraph 3
of draft Article 64.
3.
enable us to
which we
In order to determine the line (our negotiators)should
take on this issue, it would be helpful to know whether,
fourer of the
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in principle, there would be (interest in your territory (in extension of this Convention. It will clearly be of value mainly to territories, enjoying relatively sophis-
of the Canta bien The value is primarily in
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ticated commercial systems.
(Bermuda)
the
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the reciprocal enforcement of judgments provisions (which)
f eyle would enable, (say
a -judgment given in /Bermuda) to be
enforced in France without any special procedure being
required (see Article 26)*. Correspondingly, of course,
judgments given in other Contracting States would have
на
to be enforceable in your territory] As you will see
would
from the 1982 UK Act, that requires some relatively
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complex (domestic) legislation. On general legal and
commercial grounds, we would be in favour of civil
judgments being mutually recognised and enforced in order
to narrow down the circumstances where people who default
on their obligations are able to escape justice simply
ur thity
by leaving the country among the widest possible network
of countries and territories sharing common judicial
standards But it must first be a matter for the
(authorities of each territory] to assess whether it would
[them]
be valuable to them to be part of such a system.
4.
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I should be grateful for (a response) by mid-August if