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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.

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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 ). a IISD Model 2005 ). More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190

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

Kluwer Arbitration

In Jindal Iron and Steel Co Ltd v Islamic Solidarity Shipping Co Jordan Inc [2005] 1 WLR 1363; [2005] 1 All ER 175 (“ Jindal ”), the House of Lords held that the carrier’s obligation to load “properly and carefully” applies only to the extent that the agreement provides for those functions to be performed by the carrier.

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Glencore v. Bolivia: A Long-Awaited Award Finds Expropriation and FET Breaches by the State

Kluwer Arbitration

In early 2005, Swiss company Glencore International acquired the assets and assigned them to Glencore Finance (Bermuda). The Tribunal concluded that a treaty dispute was not foreseeable in 2005. A decision on interpretation and correction of the award followed on 6 November 2023. All three assets had been privatized around 2000.

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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.