The problem of enforcing a money judgment exists in every legal system in the world, but the methods and orientation vary significantly. Effective enforcement proceedings are crucial to ensure full access to justice for creditors. Complete and full knowledge of the debtors¿ assets is crucial to choose the appropriate enforcement measure. But each legal system must balance the creditors¿ rights to an efficient enforcement with the debtors¿ rights. The wide differences between enforcement proceedings mirror the way each society tries to find a balance between confronting rights and interests.
This book explores and compares how different legal systems approach these issues with a focus on the discovery of debtors¿ assets, which is a common problem for enforcement and execution proceedings in almost every jurisdiction. This is the first book to compare enforcement proceedings around the world and presents a variety of information and country reports from leading experts from four continents. It represents the joint work of academic and legal authorities from Germany, Japan, Korea, France, the UK, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Poland, Russia, Greece, North America, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and the EU.

Masahisa Deguchi, Professor of Civil Procedural Law at Faculty of Law, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto/Japan. He studied at Chuo University and Freiburg University (Germany) and got Master of law (Keio University 1988) and Doctor of law (University of Freiburg 1991) through DAAD-Scholarship. Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Freiburg (1994-1995, 2007), Regensburg (2015) and Colon (2015). JaDe-Preis [Die Stiftung zur Förderung japanisch-deutscher Wissenschafts- und Kulturbeziehungen in Köln] (2002). Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (2006). Board Member of Notarial Law in Japan (since 2005). Vice President of International Association of Procedural Law (2007-2015) and Honorary Vice-President of International Association of Procedural Law (since 2015). Member of Judicial State Examination in Japan (2012). Vice President of DAAD-Tomonokai, Presidium Member of Freiburg Alumni and Board Member of Alumni Freiburg e.V. (since 2016).

Preface:

Contents:

1.     Enforcement against Movable Property in Germany

Peter Gottwald

2.     Clarification of facts in Austrian enforcement law

Walter Rechberger

3.     Comments on the paper of Professor Dr Walter H. Rechberger; Clarification of Facts in Austrian enforcement law

Maiko Miyashita

4.     The Effective Disclosure of the Debtor¿s Assets in Enforcement Proceedings

Burkhard Hess

5.     EFFECTIVE RIGHTS PROTECTION IN CIVIL ENFORCEMENT:

Some comments from a French point of view

Loïc CADIET

6.     COMMENTS ON INFORMATION CONCERNING THE DEBTOR¿S ASSETS FOR THE ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDING

Álvaro Pérez Ragone

7.     America's BYO Approach to Enforcing Money Judgments:
Comment on Rechberger and Hess

Richard Marcus

8.     Fact Clarification and Effective Legal Protection in Civil Enforcement Law in Japan

Masahisa Deguchi

9.     Investigation of Debtor¿s Property in Japan - To Make Claims Truly Enforceable:

Hiroshi Tega

10.  Comment on Civil Enforcement Reforms from a Comparative and Historical Perspective

Omi Hatashin

11.  Proposal for a procedure to strengthen creditor¿s claims while protecting debtor¿s quality of life and privacy in Japan

Study Group for Improvement of Civil Enforcement Law:

Co-authors: Hiroko Namura & Shigehide Koyanagi

12.Some comments on the proposals of the study group from a German perspective

Wolfgang Lüke

13.  Comment on ¿A proposal of a procedure to strengthen creditor¿s claims while protecting debtor¿s quality of life and privacy in Japan¿ by the Study Group for Improvement of Civil Enforcement Law

Hans-Peter Marutschke

14.  The European Account Preservation Order in Dutch Practice

Bart Krans and Pauline Ribbers

15.  COMMENTS ON THE REPORT OF PROF. KRANS

Guillermo Ormazabal

16.  Towards More Effective Enforcement Proceedings through More Effective Asset Discovery

Fernando Gascon Inchausti

17.  Finding Defendant¿s Assets in Proceedings to Enforce Money Judgments in Switzerland

Samuel P. Baumgartner & Martin Heisch

18.  Searching Assets and Pressuring the Debtor for an Effective Enforcement: An Overview of the Brazilian Execution Proceedings

Antonio Cabral

19.  Polish Enforcement Law in Civil Cases - General Characteristics and Directions of Development

Karol Weitz and Piotr Rylski

20.  Effective Enforcement of Creditor¿s Rights in Civil Execution through Effective Discovery of Debtor¿s Assets in Taiwan

Kuan-Ling Shen

21.  The Problem of the Disclosure of the Debtor¿s Assets in Enforcement Proceedings
 from a comparative point of view of Korean law ¿

Moon-Hyuck Ho

22.  Some Characteristics of the Recourse to Debtors¿ Finances and Their Other Assets in Russia

Anastasia Valerievna Chekmareva

23.  Argentina: Notes on Effective Enforcement of Judgements in Civil Cases.

Eduardo Oteiza

24. JURISDICTION, FORUM AND ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGEMENTS: THE CHALLENGE OF COOPERATION BETWEEN COURTS BEFORE AND AFTER BREXIT (CIVIL ENFORCEMENT AND EFFECTIVE PROTECTION OF CREDITOR¿S RIGHTS IN THE EU AND IN THE UK)

Ian Forrester

Afterword:  Yasuhei Taniguchi