Repeal of the RECJA and transfer of countries to the REFJA

• Main Author: CHONG, Adeline
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Comparative and Foreign Law; Conflict of Laws
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4147; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6105/viewcontent/RECJA_202302_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Singapore’s Reciprocal Enforcement of Commonwealth Judgments Act 1921 (‘RECJA’) is based on the UK Administration of Justice Act 1920 and its Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act 1959 (‘REFJA’) is based on the UK Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933. In 2019, the government amended the REFJA in significant ways (previously detailed here), expanding its scope to include the registration of judgments from non-superior courts of gazetted countries, judicial settlements, non-money judgments and interlocutory judgments. At the same time, the RECJA was repealed from a date to be determined by the government.