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Civil way: 16 May 2025

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15 May 2025 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8116 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Trainees stand by; the King needs DJs!; Rules, Rules, Rules; High Court Control; body news

HELLO HAGUE

The 2019 Hague Convention is coming home (see ‘Civil way’, 174 NLJ 8071, p15, and Natalie Todd’s article ‘1 July 2025: Hague Judgments Day’, NLJ, 28 March 2025, p15). It will lead to the cross-border recognition and enforcement by other players of UK judgments in proceedings that commence on or after 1 July 2025. We are behind Ukraine and Uruguay. Government spin is that the convention’s application will save businesses time and money and encourage foreign companies to use the UK’s world-class lawyers and courts—take a bow—to

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