RIGHT OF ACCESS TO THE COURT OF REVIEW IN THE PROCEDURE OF RECOGNITION
AND ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN ARBITRAL AWARDS
The procedure of recognition of a foreign arbitral award is initiated by an application and finalised by a decision by which the foreign arbitral award is recognised, or the recognition is refused. After the decision of the court of first instance, the dissatisfied party may lodge an appeal, an ordinary legal remedy within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal of Montenegro.
In practice, problems may arise after the appellate court’s decision on the appeal of the dissatisfied party, given different approaches, found in both theory and practice, to the admissibility of extraordinary legal remedies. No dilemmas of this type arise in theory when it comes to the admissibility of special legal remedies, such as the constitutional complaint, which is reflected in a uniform practice of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro.
This scientific paper provides an overview of legal remedies, with an emphasis on the review, which are available to the parties or which, in the authors’ opinion, should be considered admissible after the court’s decision to recognise or refuse to recognise a foreign arbitral award.
Keywords: foreign arbitral award, recognition procedure, court of review, constitutional court.
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