investment | BITs
Fraud Intelligence | 2-Feb-2014
By losing its rights under a bilateral investment treaty against a sovereign due to corruptly securing its investment, Metal-Tech marks a seemingly growing trend of bribery playing a critical role in international investment arbitration disputes.
The Nation | 25-Jan-2014
Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments, write Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
Indian Express | 22-Jan-2014
India’s bilateral investment treaty arbitration must be made more transparent.
The Hindu Business Line | 2-Jan-2014
In the last couple of years, South Africa has become the unlikely champion of the anti-BIT movement.
| 28-Dec-2013
A shareholder from the United Kingdom of the company Progas Pakistan has initiated international arbitration proceedings of $573 million against Pakistan for alleged expropriation of its LPG infrastructure in Karachi and the government has decided to vigorously contest the case.
keywords:
energy ,
ICSID ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
natural resources ,
Pakistan ,
UK
| 26-Nov-2013
Most trade lawyers across the country are lauding Canada’s ratification of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention. But they glaze over the serious and far-reaching effects for Canadian public policy.
| 12-Nov-2013
Tthe Harper government recently committed Canada to ratify the ICSID Convention.
| 10-Nov-2013
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), in Washington, DC, will hear a case by Israeli investors seeking more than 100 billion forints (EUR 337m) in damages from the state of Hungary because of a failed casino investment, daily Magyar Nemzet said on its website on Saturday.
| 9-Nov-2013
Since announcing the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) two weeks ago Harper’s Conservatives have repeatedly labelled those questioning the deal as “anti-trade”. But this Canada-European Union accord is one part trade and four parts ‘corporate bill of rights’.
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Canada ,
corporate interests ,
EU ,
intellectual property ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
medicines
| 3-Nov-2013
Canada has confirmed its ratification of the World Bank’s ICSID Convention by depositing its “Instrument of Ratification” with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes on Nov. 1, 2013.
