Lim­it­a­tion and high de­fault in­terest in French ex­equatur law

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Lilian Lar­ribère's com­ment­ary ad­dresses the Cour de cas­sa­tion's rule that an ex­equatur action is not sub­ject to lim­it­a­tion: ac­cord­ing to the Court this does not make the action per­petu­al, so the ap­pel­late court that ap­plied it did not vi­ol­ate Art­icle 6(1) ECHR.

It states that review of in­ter­na­tion­al reg­u­lar­ity con­cerns the pro­ced­ure lead­ing to the for­eign judg­ment and its con­tent, not the con­di­tions of the ex­equatur re­quest, and that de­fault in­terest awar­ded by the for­eign judg­ment, lead­ing the de­fend­ant to pay three times the prin­cip­al sum, does not jus­ti­fy re­fus­ing ex­equatur for breach of in­ter­na­tion­al public policy.