Articles in English
The Guardian | 19-Apr-2021
Energy conglomerates have recourse to special courts and legal regimes that they helped design – and they won’t go down without a fight.
The Baltic Times | 19-Apr-2021
The ICSID in the case Eugene Kazmin v. Latvia issued its Award discontinuing the arbitration and ordering the Claimant, Ukrainian citizen Kazmin, to bear the costs of the proceeding.
iPolitics | 16-Apr-2021
NAFTA-investor lawsuits have cost Canadian taxpayers more than $376 million over the last 25 years, and could cost even more in the years ahead.
CCPA | 15-Apr-2021
The removal of investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) from the renegotiated NAFTA was a critical victory but Canada, the US and Mexico continue to be enmeshed in an extensive web of bilateral and regional accords containing ISDS.
Stock Market Wire | 14-Apr-2021
Mining group Pathfinder Minerals said a dispute over the ownership of a mining title in Mozambique could see it incur estimated losses of more than $621.3 million.
Interfax | 14-Apr-2021
The companies of the Philip Morris International group on December 21, 2020 filed a claim about bilateral investment arbitration against the government of Ukraine.
keywords:
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Ukraine
Business Standard | 12-Apr-2021
Cairn Energy has offered to invest the entire award money in India, which includes the principal amount of $1.2 billion and interest of $500 million if the government agrees to enforce the award.
IISD | 9-Apr-2021
An ICSID tribunal dismissed claims brought by WalAm Energy LCC over a geothermal project in the Republic of Kenya
IISD | 9-Apr-2021
A PCA tribunal dismissed India’s jurisdictional objections and found it in breach of the FET standard in the India–UK BIT in an arbitration under UNCITRAL rules initiated by Cairn Energy.
IISD | 9-Apr-2021
For many people affected by resource extraction, it is the prevailing legal regime that dis-embeds and disintegrates, because investment treaties can protect ventures that upend their lives with little scope for voice or redress.
keywords:
human rights ,
indigenous peoples ,
investment | BITs ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
land ,
mining ,
natural resources
