Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the Swiss court violated LugÜ by refusing to suspend enforcement under Art. 38 despite a later-filed post-judgment proceeding in Germany.
Decisione estratta
No. The German post-judgment proceeding was not an ordinary remedy within Art. 38 LugÜ because it is not time-limited in the Convention sense.
Motivazione estratta
Art. 38 LugÜ requires an ordinary remedy in the state of origin, construed autonomously. The court held that an ordinary remedy must be capable of altering the judgment and be subject to a legal time limit triggered by that judgment. The German Nachverfahren under §§ 592 ff. ZPO is not such a remedy, especially where no statutory filing period appears in § 600 ZPO and it was initiated only after more than five years.