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Evolution of Kosovo’s Investment Arbitration Law: Defining the Foreign Investor and the State’s Role in Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

04/L-220 on Foreign Investment (hereinafter, the “2014 Law on Foreign Investment”), which safeguarded foreign investors as a key element in promoting international economic cooperation and attracting foreign capital, has now been replaced by Law No. Kosovo Law No.

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Article 8, for example, warns the procuring agency, “when first soliciting the participation of. contractors in the procurement proceedings, shall declare whether the participation of suppliers or contractors in the procurement proceedings is limited,” and any “such declaration may not later be altered.”

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A New Era of Procurement in Europe: Time for Bold Change

Open Contracting Partnership

Appreciation also to Albania’s Public Procurement Commission , which helped a sizable Western Balkan community to participate energetically. The lost decade: EU Auditor Helga Berger painted a sobering picture: we’ve lost a decade of progress in European procurement despite 2014 Directives. This trend started long before Covid.

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I Know the Witnesses and I Will Believe Them; There is No Need for Cross-Examination: A Rare Example of Arbitrator Bias Before English Courts

Kluwer Arbitration

In this context it is important to recall that bias is not used in a pejorative sense, rather it means the absence of demonstrated independence and impartiality ( Yiacoub v The Queen [2014] UKPC 22 ). Trade expertise is to assist in understanding technical evidence, not to provide evidence for a party who has chosen not to participate.

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What we’re getting wrong about accountability and citizen empowerment

Open Contracting Partnership

David is the founder of reAcción , a grassroots anti-corruption civil society organization that empowers young people in Paraguay to fight for government transparency and social accountability. I work in anti-corruption, leading an organization that focuses on the education sector in Paraguay.

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Arbitration Agreements and Insolvency Proceedings: Comparing the Pro-Arbitration Perspectives in Singapore, the United Kingdom, and India, and Calling for International Consensus

Kluwer Arbitration

Altomart Limited [2014] WLR(D) 536 (“ Salford ”) at [41]. Altomart Limited [2014] EWCA Civ 1575 and reiterated by the High Court of Justice in Telnic Ltd v. Altomart Limited [2014] WLR(D) 536 (“ Salford ”) at [41]. 2) Limited v. and discourage parties from bypassing arbitration by presenting winding up petitions. 2) Limited v.

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Atlanta International Arbitration Society’s (AtlAS) 12th Annual Conference

Kluwer Arbitration

The panel also discussed recent developments in international arbitration ethics, including the UNCITRAL/ICSID Code of Conduct and the International Bar Association’s Taskforce to revise the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest for the first time since 2014. The panel discussed the ethics of expert preparation across legal cultures.

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