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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investors as a key element in promoting international economic cooperation and attracting foreign capital, has now been replaced by Law No. Kosovo Law No.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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Mongolia: Investment Related Developments in the Mining Sector

Kluwer Arbitration

These reforms centered on state involvement and equity participation in strategic mineral deposits, and increased national benefits from its rich mineral resources. Mongolia’s past legal reforms in the mining sector were primarily driven by resource nationalism and political populism.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

However, as the pervasive abuses of direct awards under the emergency conditions generated by the covid pandemic evidenced in virtually all jurisdictions, dispensing with those requirements, checks and balances comes with a very high price tag for taxpayers in terms of corruption, favouritism, and wastage of public funds.

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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.