public policy exception
C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The ground under the New York Convention permitting a court to refuse enforcement where doing so would offend the forum's fundamental principles.
The court applied the public policy exception narrowly, refusing enforcement only in the clearest cases.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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