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.