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In Reliance Industries v Union of India [2018] EWHC 822 Reliance Industries Limited and BG Exploration and Production India Limited (the “Claimants”) challenged awards made in favour of the Union of India (the “Government”)...
In a detailed decision, an ICSID tribunal hearing a dispute between Swedish Vattenfall and Germany over the state’s phase out of nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/12) has maintained jurisdiction to hear...
In Hardy v Government of India and IIFC (UK) [2018] EWHC 1916 (Comm), the English Commercial Court discharged an interim third-party debt order awarded to support an oil and gas company’s UNCITRAL award against India. The Court refused to grant...
A recent decision of the English High Court provides important guidance about the interpretation of arbitration clauses under English law when first written in a foreign language. The essence of the judgment is that, where the translation is...
The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has published the proposed amendments to its rules. The proposals mark the latest development in ICSID’s rule amendment project which aims to modernise the ICSID rules...
19 June 2018 Matthew Weiniger, Europe; Asia-Pacific; North America; Latin America; Middle East; Africa
In this video blog, Matthew Weiniger QC, our Global Co-Head of International Arbitration, takes a look at one of the oft-cited advantages of smart contracts and distributed ledger technology; namely their ability to reduce, or even eliminate, the potential for disputes. Matthew examines whether this is really true, and why parties should still be thinking about building conventional dispute resolution mechanisms into such structures. Click below to watch Matthew's video blog.
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The foreign act of state doctrine in English arbitration proceedings20 September 2018
In Reliance Industries v Union of India [2018] EWHC 822 Reliance Industries Limited and BG Exploration and Production India Limited (the “Claimants”) challenged awards made in favour of the Union of India (the “Government”) under the Arbitration Act 1996 (the “AA 1996”). The English High Court (the “Court”) had the opportunity to consider the issue of the applicability of the foreign act of state doctrine to English seated arbitration proceedings.
Post-Achmea: Vattenfall tribunal maintains jurisdiction over intra-EU Energy Charter Treaty claim against Germany13 September 2018
In a detailed decision, an ICSID tribunal hearing a dispute between Swedish Vattenfall and Germany over the state’s phase out of nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster (ICSID Case No. ARB/12/12) has maintained jurisdiction to hear the dispute under the Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”). The decision follows objections raised by Germany after the Achmea-judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”). We have previously reported on implications of Achmea for ECT-claims and the European Commissions’ view of the Achmea-judgment here.
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