Foreign Civil Decrees Passed by U.A.E. Courts Are Now Enforceable in India

Foreign Civil Decrees Passed by U.A.E. Courts Are Now Enforceable in India The Indian Government has advised in a recent notification that foreign civil decrees which are passed by the courts in the UAE are allowed to now be executed in India.

For this purpose, the Central Government has given a notification that it accepts UAE as a reciprocating territory for enforcing any foreign civil decrees in India, in tandem with Section 44A of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC).

Government Notification released on January 17, 2020

This implies that decrees which are passed by any courts in the UAE will now allowed to be executed in India, similarly in case if they were passed by any Indian civil courts.

The manner for bestowing such a status to any foreign civil decrees has been described in the Section 44A of the CPC, and it states,

The specification further stipulates the mode in which the foreign decree must be filed. In any cases where such a special recognition of foreign decrees is conferred only on the decrees which are passed by courts located in reciprocating territories, which had to be so announced by the Government Notification. Regarding this, the initial explanation to Section 44A, CPC, mentions,

Therefore, the Central Government has advised that the civil decrees passed by any of the following UAE courts may be now executed in India, that is,