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Civil Proceedings: China

Commons · Question 117525 · Tabled 3 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 11 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Connor Rand

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the findings in the China Strategic Risks Institute report entitled The PRC’s Extraterritorial Legal Architecture, published in Januar

Answer

Answered by Jake Richards, 11 Mar 2026

Decisions about recognition of foreign judgments are made by the UK’s independent judiciary, with safeguards against recognition and enforcement being available.There are various grounds on which a judge may refuse to recognise or enforce a foreign judgme...