Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 30, 2024

Amid concerns over the influence tech companies wield, States are starting to insulate their economies from perceived foreign risks of influence, while seeking to champion home-grown tech juggernauts. These changes have profound political, economic, and societal implications.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 7, 2024

As such, it served as a useful reminder to arbitration practitioners that regulatory approaches in respect of one might well influence attitudes towards the other. In keeping with the ethos of LIDW, the discussion covered funding with respect to both arbitration and litigation.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

There is, therefore, no evidence of any relationship between Firm Capital and the Respondent while the Loan was outstanding that would have influenced the Arbitrator. All dealings with the Respondent regarding the management and repayment of the Loan were conducted by Mashall Zehr.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

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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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

South African legal jurisprudence has come to enjoy significant influence in an increasingly globalised world where political, economic, social, and legal activities transcend territorial borders. From 2009 to 2017, a total of 21 international arbitrations were registered. AFSA’s statistics bear this out.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

This suggests that the intervention increased the level of competition in tenders that were already competitive, but it increased the share of high-corruption risk, single-bidder contracts in the very short-run. However, the average number of received bids increases by 0.5 bids without direct contracts considered. Full text PDF

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although it is referred to as a non-exclusive forum, the Centre has also been included in bilateral investment treaties (BITs), such as the renewed BIT between Türkiye and Ukraine signed on October 9, 2017. It is arguable that the public support behind the Centre may have contributed to these achievements.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A 2017 meta-analysis found that Black job applicants still received 36% fewer callbacks compared to white applicants with no observable change since 1989. This allows for better monitoring within the government workforce and challenges the influence of corruption. Yet their experiences followed a similar pattern.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It scrutinizes a pivotal court ruling that extends the influence of arbitration clauses to non-signatory entities, stressing the necessity for precise comprehension of arbitration stipulations in construction contracts. In 2017, the Court of Appeal held that since Seychelles had repudiated the Convention, it was not enforceable.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 29, 2024

After an award was issued against it on July 31, 2015, Usimec sought its annulment, claiming that the translator’s lack of independence and impartiality led to the Sole Arbitrator being influenced by unreliable evidence.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The silence and sparsity of costs coverage in arbitral laws and institutional rules affords wide discretion that result in reliance on customary arbitral norms and practices influenced by national legal cultures and training. The report observes that only two of the 23 applications for security for costs yielded success.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 21, 2025

Since 2005, Sir David has been consistently praised as one of the worlds outstanding commercial arbitrators, and in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of arbitration law and practice in New Zealand and internationally, was awarded a Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017. Past interviews are available here.

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FedInsider

JUNE 5, 2024

The federal government is trying to help; in 2017 the Department of Homeland Security declared election infrastructure part of the nation’s critical infrastructure sectors, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) created a dedicated program providing resources to state and local governments to protect their election assets.

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