Articles in English
Public Citizen | 1-Apr-2017
Novartis battle against Colombian Government highlights the threats to public health posed by the outrageous investor-state dispute settlement regime and bad “trade” deals.
Business Standard | 1-Apr-2017
India has received around 20 claim notices in cases of investor-state arbitration disputes under bilateral investment protection pacts.
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India ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
Stock Market Wire | 31-Mar-2017
Churchill Mining says it continues to pursue its $1.315bn claim against the Republic of Indonesia in relation to the revocation of its licenses at the East Kutai Coal Project.
International Economic Law and Policy Blog | 31-Mar-2017
The Russian Federation claimed that arbitrator Yves Fortier’s assistant turned into a Fourth Man, a covert extra arbitrator who conceived and drafted a large part of the award.
Manila Times | 30-Mar-2017
A giant Australian-Canadian gold mining group, OceanaGold, has been ordered to pay interest on $8 million in legal costs awarded to El Salvador over a lawsuit it lost.
Business Mirror | 29-Mar-2017
Mining firms should not resort to international arbitration in forcing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to revoke its decision to suspend 28 mines and cancel 75 mineral-production sharing agreements.
Reuters | 27-Mar-2017
A U.S. court has upheld an award by a World Bank Tribunal that orders Venezuela to pay more than $1 billion to Canadian mining company Crystallex, paving the way for the firm to seize assets for the 2008 expropriation of the Las Cristinas gold project.
Lexology | 27-Mar-2017
The Tribunal found that Eli Lilly had failed to demonstrate that the promise doctrine constitutes a fundamental or dramatic change in the utility requirement under Canadian patent law or that the promise doctrine is arbitrary and/or discriminatory.
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Canada ,
intellectual property ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
medicines ,
NAFTA | USMCA ,
US
IISD | 26-Mar-2017
Renco alleged that Peru breached its TPA obligations to afford fair and equitable treatment and national treatment, as well as certain contractual obligations.
Reuters | 24-Mar-2017
Transcanada Corp’s legal challenge against the United States over its past rejection of Keystone XL pipeline has been dropped.
