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"But then when you start enforcing the judgment at the local level you can run into all kinds of trouble," he said.
"When you have a situation in criminal cases where one person brings a complaint and that same person is also the judge and the man responsible for enforcing the judgment, it can create the impression that the judge is not impartial," said the official, Ghollamreza Shahri, who is head of the legislative affairs department in the judiciary.
Meanwhile Chevron has sued to prevent the plaintiffs from enforcing the judgment in the U.S., alleging fraud, and won an injunction from a federal court in New York halting Patton Boggs' planned effort to enforce it in other courts around the world.
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Barack Obama signed a law preventing the US courts enforcing the judgments of English libel judges because they were too extreme and oppressive to tolerate.
But, even more unusually, the court did not order the states to enforce the judgment immediately.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs say they will try to get American courts to enforce the judgment.
A victorious plaintiff in a private lawsuit had to enforce the judgment himself by attaching property of the defendant.
(Mr Correa won the 2011 case, for instance, but last year chose not to enforce the judgment).
But when he comes to enforce the judgment of the European court back home, things get distinctly messy.
And even if the Philippines wins the case, the court has no power to enforce the judgment; China will simply ignore it.
A sovereign can only enforce the judgments of its courts insofar as: i) a defendant or his assets can be reached by the enforcement mechanisms of the sovereign, ii) the sovereign can get extradition of the absent defendant from some other sovereign, or iiii) foreign states will enforce the judgment of the sovereign.
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