As a matter of policy, Taiwan does recognize UK judgments and enforce the same subject to relevant Taiwan law.
Below are posts that I have made previously:
Re Taiwan’s Enforcement of Foreign Judgments:
[quote]Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments by Taiwan courts is determined by application of Article 402 of Taiwan’s Code of Civil Procedure. As a general rule, a Taiwan court will recognize and enforce a final and irrevocable foreign court judgment award or court decision unless any of the following circumstances apply to such foreign court judgment:
(1) The foreign court has no jurisdiction over the case, as determined by Taiwan law;
(2) The losing party defendant is a Taiwan citizen or Taiwan entity that did not respond to the action, except where a summons or order necessary for the commencement of the action was properly served on the defendant in the foreign jurisdiction or was served on said losing party defendant in Taiwan through Taiwan’s judicial assistance;
(3) The judgment of the foreign court is considered to be incompatible with the public order or good morals of Taiwan (one example of conduct that violates this is when the foreign court does not indicate the reasons for its decision in the judgment); or
(4) Judgments or court decisions rendered by Taiwan courts are not reciprocally recognized by the courts in the foreign jurisdiction where the judgment or court decision was rendered.
It should be noted that in an recognition proceeding, the Taiwan court is, according to relevant Taiwan law, not supposed to review the investigation of the merits of the claim, which have already been heard and tried by the foreign court. Instead, the Taiwan court is supposed to focus instead on reviewing and determining whether any of the circumstances set forth at Article 402 disqualify the foreign court decision from being recognized and enforced in Taiwan. In practice, however, defendants in Taiwan often repeatedly argue the merits of the claim, which have already been heard and tried before the foreign court, and Taiwan courts often look into these arguments and defenses. This of course adds to the time needed for and expense of obtaining a recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment in Taiwan.[/quote]
Re UK’s Enforcement of Foreign Judgments:
[quote]UK’s conditions for recoginition and enforcement of foreign judgements:
Registration of a judgment pursuant to the 1933 Act will be set aside if the court is satisfied:
(1) The judgment is not a judgment to which the Act applies or was registered in contravention of the provisions of the Act; or
(2) The courts of the Country of the original court had no jurisdiction (according to the English rules of private international law) in the circumstances of the case; or
(3) The judgment debtor being the defendant in the proceedings in the original court did not, (notwithstanding that process may have been duly served on him in accordance with the law of the Country of the original court), receive notice of those proceedings in sufficient time to enable it to defend the proceedings and did not appear; or
(4) The judgment was obtained by fraud; or
(5) The enforcement of the judgment would be contrary to English public policy; or
(6) The rights under the judgment are not vested in the person by whom the application for registration was made.
The catch-all, is no. 5 above. I don’t know how the UK courts would view the Taiwanese process and or the final judgment of the Taiwan court.[/quote]
