…Court applied Article V(1)(e) of the New York Convention (hereinafter the “NYC”) and refused to enforce the award in favor of Nikolay Viktorovich Maximov for an amount of USD 153…
…as arbitration venues like Hong Kong and Singapore. Such large-scale residence of foreign talent has proven to greatly contribute to the growth of related service industry. The Promotion Act envisions…
…QC (arbitrator appointed by the Respondent) disagreed. In his Dissenting Opinion, Prof. Sands appealed to the ILO Convention 169 to assess whether all the rights of the local communities located…
…Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Matters (2002 Chisinau Convention), the Kiev Convention on Settling Disputes Related to Commercial Activities (Kiev, 1992), and the Minsk Convention…
There is no doubt that Brazil is recognized world-wide as one of the most pro-arbitration nations. Brazilian law regulating arbitration is quite innovative, especially after its reform in 2015, which…
…on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention” or “Convention”) is intended to streamline the enforcement process by mandating enforcement of a foreign arbitral award unless…
…its regulation, both on a national and an international level. Latest developments in third-party funding regulation Singapore On 10 January 2017, the Singapore Parliament passed the Civil Law (Amendment) Act…
…out the process towards the conclusion and implementation of an international instrument (the “Convention”) establishing a MIC system. The Convention will deal only with procedural matters. In turn, the applicable…
…both during this discussion and a subsequent panel, the advent of the Mauritius Convention on Transparency. Although the convention has twenty-six signatories, only three of those have ratified the treaty;…
…unpaid ICSID Convention award can seek enforcement in the courts of any ICSID Convention country, but its ability to recover will be limited by municipal laws on sovereign immunity.”5) Ibid…
…be able to replace the role currently carried out by mediators. In “Perspectives on Dispute Resolution”, Joel Lee shares his recent interview with the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA)…
…sensitive land). The one exception is its FTA with Singapore, which confines sensitive land to non-urban land. The government accepts it will need to negotiate a solution with Singapore. Australian…
…York Convention, which extends to more than 150 countries, the Hague Convention extends to only 30 countries (excluding many key Belt & Road countries). Further, the Hague Convention applies only…
…Arbitration (the “Practice Note”), and has thus joined other institutions like the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) and the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (“SCC”) in explicitly recognising the arbitral tribunal’s…
…of Morocco is a contracting state to the New York Convention and is also one of the first countries that signed and ratified the Convention on the Settlement of Investment…
…1120 prohibit expropriation without compensation, and grant such companies access to international arbitration tribunals, respectively. These provisions trump the Hydrocarbons law because, under both Mexican law and the Vienna Convention,…
Introduction Section 10 of the Singapore International Arbitration Act (“IAA”), allows a party to challenge an arbitral tribunal’s determination of its jurisdiction. Section 10(7) further provides that, where the Court…
…– provided the parties cooperate. Its schedule also contains a domestication of the New York Convention. Lagos State has the Arbitration Law of 2009 which is widely credited as being…
…enforceability of the arbitration clause will depend on its validity as analyzed under the applicable rules. According to the 1958 New York Convention, the validity of the agreement will be…
…us turn now to the intriguing Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU). The BLEU was constituted in 1922 by the entrance into force of the 1921 Convention establishing an Economic Union between…
…cannot be qualified as foreigner. This is particularly true in the context of the ICSID Convention because of its Article 25(2)(a). But before delving into the exception to the ICSID…
…world under the New York Convention. Multinational businesses face growing pressure to ensure that they and their business partners are not involved in human rights abuse. A number of highly…
…Rules when the dispute falls outside the scope of the ICSID Convention, the SCC Rules, as well as ad hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL Rules. In 2014, Russia, Belarus and…
Adoption of the EU Council Directive on Tax Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the European Union on 10 October 2017 is a milestone in international tax dispute resolution. The Directive offers…
