Where in Asia can Australian judgments be enforced

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Where in Asia can Australian judgments be enforced?

Author: Asian Business Law Institute (November 2020)

Ensuring you don’t lose the fruits of your hard-fought litigation is important when that litigation is cross-border. In 2017–18, trade with Asia represented about two-thirds (A$526 billion) of Australia’s two-way trade in goods and services (A$799 billion). Twelve economies out of Australia’s top 15 trading partners are in Asia. But in which Asian countries can you enforce a Australian judgment should you need to? How portable are Australian judgments within Asia?

This concise handbook will tell you:

• In which countries Australian judgments have been recognised and enforced (with examples);
• in which countries Australian judgments are entitled to be recognised and enforced; and
• in which countries Australian judgments cannot be recognised and enforced.

Countries considered:

• Brunei
• Cambodia
• China
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Lao
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• the Philippines
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Thailand
• Vietnam