Enforcement guide—Guernsey [Archived]

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Practice notes

Enforcement guide—Guernsey [Archived]

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Produced in partnership with Abby Brown of Ogier and Mathew Newman of Ogier

Practice notes
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ARCHIVED: This archived Practice Note contains a guide to Enforcement of court judgments in Guernsey. It includes a wide range of information, including dealing with conflicting decisions, costs, currency, enforcement process, limitation, injunctive relief, recognition of judgments, service and pitfalls and types of enforceable order. It is not maintained and is for background information only.

The Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) (Guernsey) Law 1957—1957 Law

Questions and answers

1. Treaties—is your country party to any bilateral or multilateral treaties for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments? What is the country's approach to entering into these treaties and what, if any, amendments or reservations has your country made to such treaties?

Guernsey has reciprocal arrangements with England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Italy, Netherlands, Netherlands Antillies, Surinam and Israel. Guernsey is not a signatory to the Brussels or Lugano Conventions.

The States of Guernsey need to be satisfied that reciprocal treatment will be afforded in such jurisdictions to judgments of the Royal Court (and Court of Appeal) and the The Judgments

Abby Brown
Abby Brown

Ogier

Abby is a Professional Support Lawyer for Ogier's dispute resolution teams in Guernsey and Jersey.

Abby trained at the insurance dispute resolution firm Kennedys before moving to Guernsey in 2004. She qualified as an advocate in February 2009 and was a partner in private practice before moving into professional support.

With her wealth of hands-on experience, Abby assists Ogier's dispute resolution teams in both Channel Islands by drafting in-house precedents, external client briefings, internal training guides and legal updates, external seminars and delivering internal legal training.

Abby was recommended by the Legal 500 for dispute resolution in 2014 & 2015. While in private practice she has represented numerous clients in a range of matters including trust litigation, commercial litigation, employment law, medical negligence, personal injury and matrimonial matters. She has appeared regularly before the various courts in Guernsey, up to and including the Guernsey Court of Appeal.

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Mathew Newman
Mathew Newman

Advocate and Partner, Ogier

Mathew leads Ogier's Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey, and is also global head of the firm's multi-disciplinary Restructuring and Insolvency practice. His practice encompasses commercial and financial dispute resolution, with a special focus on contentious insolvency and restructuring and regulatory matters, schemes of arrangement, shareholder disputes and matters involving investment schemes. Mathew also has considerable experience in relation to more general commercial disputes involving financial services businesses, Guernsey trusts and large scale construction claims.

Mathew qualified as an advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey in February 2011, where he appears regularly on complex commercial and trusts disputes and insolvency/restructuring matters. In particular, Mathew frequently acts for trustees and beneficiaries in both hostile and administrative trusts proceedings, as well as for insolvency office holders and economic stakeholders in contentious cases involving distressed or insolvent structures, especially in cases of fraud and asset tracing. He also has substantial experience of civil cases involving breach of directors' duties, shareholder disputes and professional negligence, together with contentious regulatory cases in the context of proceeds of crime, sanctions and anti-money laundering legislation. Mathew is ranked by Chambers & Partners (tier 2) and by Legal 500 (leading individual).

Mathew joined the firm in 2008 from global firm DLA Piper where he was a member of the Restructuring Group. Mathew is a qualified commercial mediator and is a member of the executive committee of ARIES, the local chapter of INSOL International. He is a member of the Guernsey insolvency law reform committee, the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3) and is an overseas member of the Chancery Bar Association. Mathew is also a member of the editorial board of International Corporate Rescue magazine and a committee member of INSOL International's Webinar Series.

Mathew is also part of Ogier's Aviation and Marine sector group and has worked on litigation cases surrounding aircraft leasing in an insolvency situation as well as a case involving securing shipping vessels around the world on behalf of the liquidators of an oil and gas company.

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Enforcement definition
What does Enforcement mean?

The action of compelling a party to comply with a judgment where it has not been complied with voluntarily and the time ordered for compliance has expired.

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