Prevention

Accountability, Dispute Resolution, Exhaustion of Local Remedies, Investor-State arbitration, Pakistan, Prevention

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Introduction In July this year, an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) based arbitration tribunal ordered the Government of Pakistan (GOP) to pay a massive $5.8 billion to Tethyan in compensation. The legal battle between Tethyan and GOP started in 2011 when GOP refused to grant a mining lease to Tethyan after it…

Commercial Arbitration, Construction arbitration, Dispute, Goverment Procurement, Investment Arbitration, Prevention, regulation, WTO

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This is one of the five construction arbitration posts, providing the technical discussion from the SCAI, CAM, TILPA conference in Geneva and Mexico City.  The authors include: Ms Almudena Otero De La Vega (on State enterprises) Ms Tanya Landon & Ms Azal Khan (on evidence), Dr Manuel Arrollo (on multiple procedures), Mr Serge Y. Bodart…