Practitioners seeking to enforce Australian money judgments overseas where the judgment debtor is bankrupt should note that the majority held that s 58(3) of the Bankruptcy Act does not constitute a 'stay' under s 15(2) of the Foreign Judgments Act, and that obtaining a certificate under s 15(1) is not itself enforcement of a remedy barred by s 58(3)(a). However, the 2-1 split and the strength of the dissent mean the point is not settled.
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