s.9General effect of certain foreign judgments
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Section 9Part 3 — Miscellaneous and General

General effect of certain foreign judgments

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Subject to this section, a judgment to which Part II applies or would have applied if a sum of money had been payable thereunder, whether it can be registered or not, and whether, if it can be registered, it is registered or not shall be recognised in the Grand Court as conclusive between the parties thereto in all proceedings founded on the same cause of action and may be relied on by way of defence or counter-claim in any such proceedings.
Subsection (1) shall not apply in the case of any judgment —
where the judgment has been registered and the registration thereof has been set aside on some ground other than that —
a sum of money was not payable under the judgment;
the judgment had been wholly or partly satisfied;
at the date of the application the judgment could not be enforced by execution in the country of the original court;
where the judgment has not been registered, it is shown (whether it could have been registered or not) that, if it had been registered, the registration thereof would have been set aside on an application for that purpose on some ground other than one of the grounds specified in paragraph (a).
Nothing in this section shall be taken to prevent the Grand Court recognising any judgment as conclusive of any matter of law or fact decided therein if that judgment would have been so recognised before the passing of this Law.

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