The legal system for the implementation of foreign judgments in Iraq

Abstract

Execution of the foreign judgment, which is meant to put the foreign judgment into practice by forcibly obliging the convict to perform what was passed to the convict in a country other than the one whose court issued this judgment.

      Countries have followed two different paths in the implementation of foreign judgments. The first path is the internal legal rules, meaning that the competent authorities of legislation in the country issue a law that defines the conditions and procedures that must be met to implement foreign judgments within the national scope. The second path is international agreements, through the state’s association with an international agreement. With other countries, it determines the position of each country on the foreign judgment issued by the courts of other countries related to this agreement and the legal conditions that are required to be met in order for the foreign judgment to be enforceable within the territories of the contracting countries.