HL Deb 29 June 1982 vol 432 c180

24 After Clause 33, insert the following new clause:

"Certain judgments a bar to further proceedings on the same cause of action.

. No proceedings may be brought by a person in England and Wales or Northern Ireland on a cause of action in respect of which a judgment has been given in his favour in proceedings between the same parties, or their privies, in a court in another part of the United Kingdom or in a court of an overseas country, unless that judgment is not enforceable or entitled to recognition in England and Wales or, as the case may be, in Northern Ireland."

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 24. This is consequential on something that I have already said.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.