A judgment expressed in a foreign currency is a 'money judgment' registrable under the Foreign Judgments Act 1991 (Cth), and the position is not altered by the fact that the sum was arrived at by conversion or involves deductions. A person joined to foreign proceedings on the question of costs who participates in those proceedings voluntarily submits to the jurisdiction for the purposes of s 7(3)(a)(i). The question whether the test for setting aside a foreign judgment for fraud requires fresh evidence not available at trial (as for domestic judgments) or permits a broader investigation (as under the English rule in Abouloff v Oppenheimer) remains unresolved, but the Court identified powerful reasons favouring the narrower domestic test.
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