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25 - 02 - 2014

PORTUGAL 7

Yearbook Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, A.J. van den Berg (ed.), Vol. XXXIX (2014)
Jurisdiction Portugal
Summary

Portugal 7. Tribunal da Relação, Porto, 9 September 2013 and Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, 25 February 2014

Related topics
301

The court discusses the principle that the procedure for the enforcement of awards under the Convention is governed by the lex fori, as well as procedural issues (such as the competent enforcement court) not falling under the specific cases of ¶¶ 302-307.

Procedure for enforcement in general
501

The court discusses questions relating to the general approach taken by the Convention to the grounds for refusal of recognition and enforcement, including its pro-enforcement bias, as well as the system of the Convention, under which recognition and enforcement may only be denied on seven listed grounds and the petitioner has only the obligations set out in Art. IV.

Grounds are exhaustive
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