The doctrine of renvoi is rightly described as “a subject loved by academics, hated by students and ignored (when noticed) by practising lawyers (including judges)”. This article argues that the students have much the better of the argument. English commercial law has rightly rejected renvoi as a general rule, because it multiplies the expense and complexity of proceedings, while doing little to deter forum-shopping and enable enforcement. It should go even further to reject renvoi in questions of immovable property, because the special justification that this enables enforcement of English judgments against foreign land ignores the fact that title or possession of such land is generally not justiciable in English courts and such judgments will not be enforced irrespective of whether renvoi is applied.

反叛学说被正确地描述为“一个被学者喜爱、被学生憎恨、被执业律师（包括法官）忽视（当注意到时）的学科”。本文认为，学生的论点要好得多。英国商法正确地拒绝将 renvoi 作为一般规则，因为它增加了诉讼的费用和复杂性，而对阻止法院购物和促进执法几乎没有作用。在不动产问题上，它应该更进一步拒绝 renvoi，因为这使得英国能够执行针对外国土地的判决的特殊理由忽略了这样一个事实，即此类土地的所有权或占有在英国法院通常是不可审理的，并且此类判决不会无论是否应用了 renvoi，都将强制执行。