…quite thoroughly. Further, pursuant to Article 39 and Article 11 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), states can amend treaties by “any means if agreed”. This…
…including oil and gas, power, construction, mining, air transportation, and infrastructure. An expert in investment arbitration, Ms. Marchili coauthored, with R. Doak Bishop, the treatise Annulment Under the ICSID Convention….
…give effect to the country’s ratification of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Award, which Myanmar ratified in 2013. There is no doubt that the common…
…of enforcement. The US view did not prevail. 1) M. Paulsson, The 1958 New York Convention in Action, (Kluwer Law International 2016), p. 204. See also Convention on the Recognition…
…States in its free trade agreements with Singapore, Chile, and Morocco. Multilateral investment courts The anti-investor-state arbitration theme of the Committee is apparent from its suggestion that the…
…ICSID Convention, which provides that “except as the parties otherwise agree, the Tribunal shall, if requested by a party, determine any … counterclaims arising directly out of the subject-matter of…
…1958 United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the “New York Convention”). Castro v. Tri Marine Fish Co., LLC, 2017 WL 3262473 (W.D. Wash. July…
It has been ten years since Bolivia denounced the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention (“ICSID Convention”), becoming the first country to withdraw from the ICSID Convention in…
…authorised to convey or conclude business transactions in another person’s name and account. In accordance with Article II Paragraph 3 of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement…
…question we consider in this post is whether Contracting Parties to the New York Convention on the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention”) must mandate the enforcement of…
…conditions to become a seat for other international disputes. The country is a member of the most important international arbitral conventions such as the 1958 New York Convention and the…
…Singapore, Malaysia, the UAE and Monaco as well as other countries identified by the Kazakhstan government will also have visa-free entry to the country for a period of 30 days.(Article…
…Them – Peacemakers Conference 2017, Joel Lee shares visual metaphors for mediation created by students at the Peacemakers Conference held in June in Singapore. In What’s Wrong With Trust And…
…sought for by any party (Art. V(1)(c) of the New York Convention). In the Dresser-Rand case, the Paris Court of Appeal underlined that the Tribunal’s decision did not turn on…
…the Hong Kong investment community. Mr Timothy Histed, head of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank Group (MIGA), travelled from Singapore to unveil the World Bank’s political…
…the Central Government of India as “reciprocating countries” under the New York Convention, while only 12 nations have been recognized as reciprocating countries under Section 44A of the Code of…
…more than 20 years of experience in energy and environmental analysis. M Sornarajah is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore and has extensive experience in international law….
…just one year (2015) in its two offices in Oslo and Singapore. These are staffed by lawyers dedicated to working exclusively on funded arbitrations. Over time, the economic benefits associated…
…a 2015 survey, conducted by Queen Mary University of London, Hong Kong and Singapore are respectively the third and fourth preferred venues for international arbitration, behind London and Paris. While…
…when urgency reasons exist. Similar provisions are included in the Rules of Arbitration of other primary arbitral institutions such as the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Hong Kong International…
…The New York Convention is in force in all islands, to the exception of Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis and St Lucia, and the ICSID Convention is in force in…
…counsel. Similarly, under the competence conferred to ICSID’s Administrative Council under Article 6(1)(c) of the ICSID Convention to ‘adopt the rules of procedure for … arbitration proceedings,’ rules on counsel…
…final destination in London’s Guild Hall, the 29th GPC event since it debuted in Singapore in April 2016. At these events, over 2,000 stakeholders in commercial dispute resolution around the…
…provisions of the Decree. Hence, the results of mediations conducted by foreign mediation centres such as the Singapore International Mediation Center (SIMC), the Center for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), etc….
