{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982-amendment-order-1989/schedule-1/part-4/crossheading-recognition",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982-amendment-order-1989/schedule-1/part-4/crossheading-recognition.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1346",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (Amendment) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-jurisdiction-and-judgments-act-1982-amendment-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/4/crossheading/recognition",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "Section 1",
  "heading": "Recognition",
  "text": "A judgment given in a Contracting State shall be recognized in the other Contracting States without any special procedure being required.\nAny interested party who raises the recognition of a judgment as the principal issue in a dispute may, in accordance with the procedures provided for in Sections 2 and 3 of this Title, apply for a decision that the judgment be recognized.\nIf the outcome of proceedings in a court of a Contracting State depends on the determination of an incidental question of recognition that court shall have jurisdiction over that question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1346/schedule/1/part/4/crossheading/recognition",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:32.180413+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}