Does a domestic court have an increased duty to ensure that the minimum standards of fairness have been applied by a foreign court?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Al-Marzouq v Nafissah, 2019 BCSC 1759 (CanLII):
In Kriegman v. Dill, 2018 BCCA 86 at para. 4, Newbury J.A. referred to Beals to state that “a domestic court enforcing a foreign judgment has a ‘heightened duty’ to ensure that the ‘minimum standards of fairness’ have been applied by the foreign court” when denial of natural justice is alleged.
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