What happens once judgment is given — how decisions are corrected, set aside or appealed, and the machinery for turning a money judgment into payment.
Winning at trial is only half the battle: a judgment is just a piece of paper until the losing party pays or is made to. This chapter begins with the post-trial landscape — judgment creditors and debtors, the time allowed for payment, and the slip rule for correcting errors — before turning to the mandatory and discretionary grounds for setting aside default judgments and judgments given in a party's absence. It then maps the appeals framework, the permission test and grounds of appeal, the accrual of interest on judgment debts, and how a stay of execution is obtained pending appeal. The final sections work through the creditor's toolkit: investigating the debtor's assets, writs and warrants of control, third party debt orders, charging orders and attachment of earnings, and the use of bankruptcy and winding-up proceedings where the debt goes unpaid.
