Attorney General of Canada v. Gorman

OPINION OF THE COURT

Charles J. Market, J.

New York, desirous of streamlining litigation for the recognition and enforcement in New York of a money judgment of a foreign country, has emphasized that its courts’ reviewing role in such cases, as discussed below, is simply “ministerial.” The issue of first impression raised by this case is what degree of scrutiny must the New York court employ in reviewing a motion made on default to enforce a foreign money judgment. Alternatively put, the issue is whether this court’s “ministerial function” entails being only a rubber stamp where, although made…