§ Mr. CROOM-JOHNSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the draft convention for the reciprocal enforcement of judgments referred to in the reply of 4th June, 1930, has been considered, and with what result; and whether any decision has been come to with regard to entering into informal negotiations with certain other countries?
§ Captain EDENThe draft provisional convention for the reciprocal enforcement of judgments, which resulted from the negotiations between the British and Belgian legal experts in January, 1930, was duly considered by His Majesty's Government. As a result it was decided that the British experts should enter into discussions with the French and German legal experts for the drafting of similar conventions with the French and German Governments. These discussions took place at Berlin and Paris respectively at the end of January and the beginning of February this year, and provisional conventions of a similar kind were drawn up. The British experts subsequently drew up a report on their discussions at Brussels, Berlin and Paris. The Lord Chancellor is appointing a committee to consider that report, and to examine the possibility of framing a Statute to provide for the conclusion with foreign Governments of conventions of this nature.