Effective Enforcement of Creditors' Rights

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.