The Civil Procedure Rules 1998

Evidence in support of application

Rule 18—(1) An application for registration must be supported by a witness statement or affidavit exhibiting—

(a)the Community judgment and the order for its enforcement or, as the case may be, the Euratom inspection order or, in either case, a duly authenticated copy thereof, and

(b)where the Community judgment or Euratom inspection order is not in the English language, a translation into English certified by a notary public or authenticated by witness statement or affidavit.

(2) Where the application is for registration of a Community judgment under which a sum of money is payable, the witness statement or affidavit shall also state—

(a)the name and occupation and the usual or last known place of abode or business of the judgment debtor, so far as known to the witness; and

(b)to the best of the witness’s information and belief that at the date of the application the European Court has not suspended enforcement of the judgment and that the judgment is unsatisfied or, as the case may be, the amount in respect of which it remains unsatisfied.