Key legal question
Whether the London judgments were unenforceable because contempt of court made recognition contrary to Swiss public policy under Art. 27(1) CL.
Extracted holding
A contempt-of-court regime does not, by itself, violate Swiss procedural public policy; recognition cannot be refused on that basis alone.
Extracted reasoning
The public-policy exception must be interpreted restrictively in Lugano cases. Contumacy and default are not unknown to Swiss law, and the harsher English consequences for non-compliance do not make the procedure per se incompatible with fundamental procedural guarantees.