Articles in English
| 4-Jul-2011
Despite a demand by the European Union (EU), India is unlikely to allow a clause in a proposed trade pact with the bloc that permits an overseas investor to sue a host country at an international dispute settlement agency.
| 28-Jun-2011
Pacific Rim is suing the Salvadoran government in an international investment court, one of scores of cases in recent years in which frustrated oil, gas and mining investors, using provisions of trade agreements, have sought to recoup losses from mostly developing countries.
keywords:
CAFTA ,
Canada ,
El Salvador ,
environment ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining ,
US
| 28-Jun-2011
Tobacco giant Philip Morris suing the Australian government for introducing plain packaging laws for tobacco should send shockwaves through this country as it seeks a free trade deal involving the US, says an academic critic of the deal.
keywords:
actions | resistance ,
corporate interests ,
CPTPP ,
health ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
New Zealand ,
US
| 27-Jun-2011
Canada’s Bear Creek Mining Corp. is threatening a legal challenge
against Peru after its mining rights were revoked in a move that raises
the risk for other resource companies doing business in the
mineral-blessed South American country.
keywords:
actions | resistance ,
Canada ,
environment ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
mining ,
Peru
| 27-Jun-2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she won’t be intimidated by big tobacco after Philip Morris launched legal action to try to force the government to back down on introducing plain packaging for cigarettes.
keywords:
Australia ,
corporate interests ,
health ,
Hong Kong ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS
| 15-Jun-2011
The office of Ecuador’s Attorney General will represent Ecuador in Washington at a June 30 hearing in the arbitration case filed against the Andean country by US oil company Occidental Petroleum Corp.
keywords:
corporate interests ,
Ecuador ,
energy ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
US
| 9-Jun-2011
One of the world’s biggest tobacco companies is launching a claim against Uruguay for considering the country’s legislation commercially damaging to the company. Philip Morris corporation has filed a claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a World Bank branch.
keywords:
corporate interests ,
ICSID ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Uruguay ,
US
| 23-May-2011
UAE companies that have invested in Egypt may stand to lose millions of dollars as the state runs an investigation into alleged corruption by former government officials who sold land and assets to investors below market prices, lawyers say.
| 13-May-2011
Damac Properties is to fight the conviction of its chairman on Egyptian corruption charges by filing a case with the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the company announced yesterday.
CCPA | 23-Mar-2011
Why should a provincial government be punished for doing the right thing?
