Originally from Enforcement of Money Judgments

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I.   PRESENT ATTITUDE TOWARD ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN MONEY JUDGMENTS

A.  Describe the receptiveness of your government (including courts) toward enforcement of foreign money judgments.

There is no government policy against the enforcement of foreign money judgments in Barbados.

A foreign money judgment is directly enforceable by the courts of Barbados if that judgment is registered in Barbados under the provisions of the Foreign and Commonwealth Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act, Chapter 201 of the Laws of Barbados (the FCJA). The provisions of the FCJA have been extended by order to Grenada, St. Vincent, Guyana, Trinidad, the Leeward Islands (Anguilla, Antigua, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, and St. Kitts/Nevis), St. Lucia, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Nigeria and New South Wales.

Part I of the FCJA applies to the enforcement of United Kingdom (U.K.) judgments. It also applies to the enforcement of judgments in other Commonwealth  countries where the Governor General has by order extended the provisions of Part I of the FCJA to those countries.  The Governor General is authorised to make such an order where he is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the legislature of those countries for the enforcement within those countries of judgments obtained in the High Court of Barbados.

Part II of the FCJA applies to the enforcement of foreign, i.e. non-U.K. and non-Commonwealth, judgments where the Governor General by order directs that Part II of the FCJA shall be extended to any such country.  The Governor General is authorised to make such an order if it appears to him that in the event that the benefits conferred by Part II of the FCJA are extended to judgments given in the superior court of any such non-U.K. or non-Commonwealth country, substantial reciprocity of treatment will be assured as respects the enforcement in that county of judgments given in the High Court of Barbados.

“Foreign judgments” within the meaning of the FCJA will throughout this chapter be referred to as “non-U.K.” and/or “non-Commonwealth judgments.”