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DOJ Intervenes in Qui Tam Case Against International Student Recruiting Firm

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Particularly, since 2015, SATP, under the direction of Borhaug, has recruited American students to attend UK schools and demanded payment of a commission for SATP’s services. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.

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Centralised procurement for the health care sector -- bang for your pound or siphoning off scarce resources?

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The method for calculating this re-counted savings from each year since 2015-16. billion target by using 2015-16 prices as its baseline. For example, if a product cost £10 in 2015-16 and reduced to £9 in 2016-17, Supply Chain would report a saving of £1. Supply Chain calculated its reported savings against the £2.4

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Examining the Delegation of the Power to Determine Arbitrability: Insights from Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. v. Cypress Semiconductor Corp.

Kluwer Arbitration

Notably, Fujitsu partially breaks with precedent in other jurisdictions on how carve-out provisions influence the delegation of arbitrability. It also examined the implications of incorporating Japanese arbitration rules—with permissive, not mandatory, language stating arbitrators “may” rule on their own jurisdiction—on delegation.

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CBAr 23rd International Arbitration Conference: Arbitration and Infrastructure

Kluwer Arbitration

13,129/2015 , which expanded arbitration’s scope, especially in infrastructure-related disputes involving public administration. Professor Armesto highlighted the 2015 Paris Agreement (also reported here ), noting the difficult position of Latin American countries that must balance infrastructure development with environmental protection.

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2024 PAW: Affaires d’Etats Vol. 3 – Amplifying the Voices of Developing States in ISDS Reform

Kluwer Arbitration

Mehranvar noted that these observations underscore a concerning trend where countries with greater influence in the creation of the ISDS regime are once again re-writing the (asymmetric) rules, paving the way for the re-legitimization of an inherently flawed system. Canada and E.U.

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Cross-Fertilisation in International Commercial Arbitration, Investor-State Arbitration and Mediation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

Kluwer Arbitration

It teases out some connections or influences among ICA, investor-State arbitration (“ISA”), and international and domestic mediation, which I have also sought to represent visually in the graphic below. My address will take an even more encompassing view (and will be available as a full paper here after the public lecture).

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LIDW 2024: Bank Collapse and ISDS: Arbitration Strategy and Dramatis Personae

Kluwer Arbitration

Cameron Miles underscored that circumstances have changed since 2015 (see e.g. Po š tov á Banka v. Typically, for cancellations of bonds, two possible breaches come to mind (i) expropriation; and (ii) fair and equitable treatment (“FET”) standard.

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