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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. The key features of the first generation reforms that took place between 2000-2005 addressed aspects of legislation, centralization and independence, and professionalization.

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2023 Copenhagen Arbitration Day Recap: The Future of Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

He drew a thread from the first arbitration law in Denmark under Christian V in 1683 to a bill on arbitration in 1972 to the enactment of the 2005 Danish Arbitration Act based on the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. 13(4) and 16(4)).

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Much Ado About Nothing? – Advocating for Legality Clauses instead of ESG and CSR Investor Obligations in International Investment Agreements

Kluwer Arbitration

18 IISD Model 2005 ). 11-18 IISD Model 2005 ). Absent these domestic mechanisms, when an investor initiates arbitration, the Contracting State might engage in a witch hunt and launch investigations to discover investor non-compliance purely to also claim damages. a IISD Model 2005 ). 1 Netherlands Model BIT 2019 ).

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B v C: Qatar International Court’s First Decision On A Set-Aside Application

Kluwer Arbitration

On 5 May 2024, the Civil and Commercial Court of the Qatar Financial Centre (“Court”), rendered its judgment in B v C on a setting aside application brought under the QFC Arbitration Regulations 2005 (“QFC Arbitration Regulations”). Since the creation of the Court in 2009 (through an amendment in Law No.

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2019 Hague Convention: On UK Accession and the Convention’s Interplay with International Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Consequently, the HCCH’s ambition had to be curtailed, so the HCCH temporarily settled for adopting the Convention of 30 June 2005 on Choice of Court Agreements (“Choice of Court Convention”). However, the endeavour proved rather unsuccessful initially due to a lack of consensus on an array of divisive issues.

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An Australian Maritime Dispute in London: Can the Hague-Visby Rules Render an Arbitration Agreement Null and Void?

Kluwer Arbitration

Pursuant to section 10 (1)(b)(ii) of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 , the Australian Hague Rules apply to a contract of carriage of goods by sea from a port in Australia to another port in Australia. While US courts have held that Article 3(2) imposes a non-delegable duty on the carrier, UK courts have reached the opposite conclusion.

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An End to the Taisei Saga in Pakistan

Kluwer Arbitration

By virtue of Section 1(4) of the 2011 Act, the law applies retrospectively to foreign awards made from and after July 14, 2005, the date when Pakistan ratified the New York Convention 1958 through a Presidential ordinance.