Lesotho sets aside award before the Singapore High Court
…the award exceeded the scope of the submission to arbitration. Singapore High Court’s decision The Singapore High Court, applying a de novo standard of review, set aside the award…
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Is India losing the Litmus Test on Investor Protection by Preventing Vodafone from Invoking Arbitration under UK-India BIT?
…Article 26 of the Vienna Convention. It is not as if India would have no remedy. It would be an issue fully capable of being addressed in the arbitration itself….
Equal Access to Information & Justice: The Huge Potential of Online Dispute Resolution Greatly Underexplored (I)
…entirely to the digital world in resolving all types of disputes online like Singapore. Therefore it seemed vital to bring the debate about using technology in dispute resolution to Paris…
Pearl & Others v The KRG of Iraq: The DIFC Courts’ Tough Stance on State Immunity and Other Lessons
…an ex parte application for an order for recognition and enforcement and the requirements of service of such an application under the 1983 Riyadh Convention. The proceedings before the DIFC…
Appointment Of Arbitrators In India – Finally Courts Divest Some Power
…promote institutionalized arbitration in India. This is also along the lines of how the appointment of arbitrators takes place in Singapore [thanks to Jeet Shroff for making me notice…
Third-Party Funding’s Older Sibling: Legal Costs Insurance and The Issue Of Regulation
…fact that liability and ATE insurance are included while BTE insurance remains outside of its scope is again inconsistent. With regards to legislative efforts, Hong Kong and Singapore have recently…
Navigating the Labyrinth: Indian Courts on One-Way Arbitration Clauses
…reasoning in Pittalis to uphold their validity. The Calcutta High Court’s position is, therefore, consistent with the current position in most common law countries, as observed in the Singapore High…
How States Manage Their Obligations Under Bilateral Investment Treaties: Opportunistically Changing The Rules of The Game or Legitimately Exercising Their Sovereign Rights? (Part II)
…under customary international law and Article 31 (3) (a) & (b) of Vienna Convention of [sic] Law of Treaties, that any interpretation of the Agreement take into account the Contracting…
How States Manage Their Obligations Under Bilateral Investment Treaties: Opportunistically Changing The Rules of The Game or Legitimately Exercising Their Sovereign Rights? (Part I)
…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…
Announcing Young ITA Applications for Board Positions
…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….
Where is Myanmar Headed with the New Investment Law?
…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…
Arbitration, Arbitration Awards, Enforcement, Enforcement of an award that was set aside, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, United States
The 1958 New York Convention Turning into The Battle of Judgments: The Latest in the US Attitude Towards the Enforcement of Annulled Awards
…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…
Will India do away with investor state arbitration?
…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…
Arbitration, Counterclaims, Environment, Investment agreements, Investment Arbitration, Investor-State arbitration
Protection of the Environment in Investment Arbitration – A Double-Edged Sword
…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…
Federal Court Enforces Foreign Arbitral Award Resolving Jones Act Seaman’s Personal Injury Claim
…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…
Life after ICSID: 10th anniversary of Bolivia’s withdrawal from ICSID
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…
Another Win for European Commercial Agents: Overriding Mandatory Austrian Law Provisions to Supersede Arbitration Agreement
…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…
To NYC or Not: Dealing with Discrepancy in Enforcement Requirements between the New York Convention and the Domestic Arbitration Act
…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…
Portugal: A New Hub for International Arbitration Disputes
…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…
The Astana International Financial Centre: AIFC Court and International Arbitration Centre Legal Systems to be based on English Common Law
…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…
Kluwer Mediation Blog – July Digest
…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…
Will Adverse Inferences Help Make Document Production in International Arbitration More Efficient?
…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…
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Risky business: political risk insurance in the OBOR jurisdictions – Report on the 4th CMS-HKIAC Investment Law Lecture
…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…
Enforcing Foreign Diktat: Puncturing the Stereotype
…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…