Confidentiality and Transparency, Investment Arbitration, Transparency in investment arbitrations, UNCITRAL Transparency Rules
UNCITRAL Unveils New Transparency Rules – Blazing a Trail Towards Transparency in Investor-State Arbitration?
On 11 July 2013, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”) adopted new Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration (the “Transparency Rules”), which will come into effect from 1 April 2014. The new rules provide for public access to documents generated during treaty-based investor-state arbitrations (but not commercial arbitrations) brought under the…