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Pakistani Energy Sector Parties Challenge Arbitration Awards in the English High Court on the Grounds of ‘Serious Irregularity’

Kluwer Arbitration

How domestic courts approach challenges to arbitration awards is of increasing importance as foreign parties often decide to seat an arbitration in a jurisdiction that they believe will provide the greatest stability to governing the arbitration process.

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Enforcing Interim Awards in Pakistan – Finality or Binding?

Kluwer Arbitration

SA Minerals Ltd , 12-CV-8087(CM) (SN), 2013 WL 2661037 (S.D.N.Y. June 12, 2013), a U.S. This is an important judgment because it does not rely on “finality”, as envisaged in the Guide or the international precedents. This new approach is an important development towards establishing Pakistan’s pro-enforcement bias.

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Ascendancy of Institutional Arbitration in the Gulf: Abu Dhabi Adds New International Arbitration Centre

Kluwer Arbitration

Founded in 1993, ADCCAC offered case management services, hearing rooms, and a set of arbitration rules that were last updated in 2013. The 2023 SCCA Arbitration Rules (commented on in a previous blog post ) increased the threshold amount in dispute for expedited proceedings to approximately USD 1.07 million in value.

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Tackling Corruption in the Arbitral Process: Reflections on Nigeria v Process and Industrial Developments Limited

Kluwer Arbitration

There is a very high threshold for a Section 68 challenge. Drafting Major Commercial Contracts Involving a State Given the potential exposure of States (and hence public funds) under these contracts, the Judge reiterated the importance of proper professional standards and ethics in the drafting of major commercial contracts involving a State.

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A missed opportunity to provide meaningful clarification on state aid analysis of procurement compliance and some problematic ‘obiter dicta’ (C-28/23)

How to Crack a Nut

In 2013 the Slovak Government granted State aid to NFŠ to support the construction of the national football stadium in Bratislava. The State aid Decision made two important explicit points. The initial grant agreement was signed in 2013, but the final grant agreement and AFSA were signed in 2016.

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

To be at the 100-employee threshold, the employer must be a “business enterprise that employs— (i) 100 or more employees, excluding part-time employees; or (ii) 100 or more employees, including part-time employees, who in the aggregate work at least 4,000 hours per week, exclusive of hours of overtime.” [57] Specifically, U.S.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

Nonetheless, from 2013 to 2018, “[y]ear-over-year [wage] growth has mostly ranged between 2% and 3%[.]” [8] So, with recent wage growth of 5.5%, wage growth has been accelerating. GAO’s competitive prejudice threshold should be similar. 86] Perhaps most important, “[t]he authority conferred by Pub. percent.” [7]