惩罚性损害赔偿判决承认与执行问题研究

On the Recognition and Enforcement Foreign Court’s Punitive Damage Judgment

外国法院惩罚性损害赔偿判决①的承认与执行一直是一个饱受争议的话题,各国立法和司法实践对该问题持有不同的态度。产生分歧的主要原因是对惩罚性损害判决的性质、是否与内国的公共政策相抵触、适用范围等问题的理解存在着差异。我国法院在将来的司法实践中可以依据我国法律对惩罚性损害赔偿判决的性质进行识别,在认可此类判决具有民商事性的前提下,慎用公共政策,可在侵权以及合同等民商事领域内分割承认与执行惩罚性损害判决。

It has been always a highly controversial topic about recognition and enforcement to the punitive damages judgment that made by foreign court.The legislative and judicial practice leads each country formed their owns attitudes toward this topic and that differs a lot.The main reason arose the differences should be the diversity understanding about three elements:the nature of punitive damages judgment,whether the judgment conflict to the internal public policy,and the scope of applying such judgment.In the future judicial practice,Chinese courts shall proceed the characterization based on the domestic law and according to the nature of punitive damages judgment,judiciously apply public policy on the premise of accepting such judgment’s civil and commercial nature,separately recognition and enforcement such judgment in tort and contract or similar civil and commercial areas.