A draft Convention on the international effects of judicial sales of ships

Since May 2019, through its role as an observer/participant in an UNCITRAL Working Group, the IAJ has been supporting a project designed to better facilitate and improve international commercial relationships and to improve mutual respect for courts in various countries.

IAJ has been represented by the Hon. Justice Neil McKerracher of the Federal Court of Australia at New York for the first meeting and in following meetings during the pandemic by video.  The Hon. Mr Justice Brian McGovern of the Irish Court of Appeal attended the second session in Vienna in November 2019.

After several meetings, the Draft Convention has now been fully approved by UNCITRAL – and a draft decision by the commission to the General Assembly of the UN also approved.

The decision calls on the General Assembly in its next session to adopt the Convention!

Hereinafter the report of Hon McKerracher and the Draft Convention:

Report Hon. McKerracher

Draft Convention