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2019 Hague Convention: On UK Accession and the Convention’s Interplay with International Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

On 27 June 2024, the United Kingdom (“UK”) ratified the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (“2019 Hague Convention” or “Convention”), with 1 July 2025 being the expected date of its entry into force in England and Wales.

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2023 Year in Review: Switzerland (Part I: Scope of Arbitration Clause, Capacity of Discernment, Res Iudicata)

Kluwer Arbitration

Part I focuses on the scope of arbitration clause and its validity in the context of a party’s (in)capacity of discernment, as well as on the new developments regarding res iudicata. Part II explores new case law on the enforcement of arbitral awards.

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DoD outlines four-phase approach to implement CMMC in proposed rule

Federal News Network

The Pentagon first announced CMMC in 2019. An extension of the implementation period or other solutions may be considered in the future to mitigate any C3PAO capacity issues, but the department has no such plans at this time,” it continues. “If

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New rule sets stage for banning risky technologies from government supply chains

Federal News Network

I can just say that we’re quite busy on the FASC and we’re also working to expand our capacity and truly have the resources we need to be able to take on what could become a pretty big workload one day. “I can’t provide a whole lot of comment on that right now,” DeRusha said. “I

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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector

As somebody who led a digital transformation program in the UK government and who now listens to government transformation leaders around the world, I joined the panel with leaders from the International Monetary Fund Capacity Development, the World Bank, and Brazil’s federal government. By 2019, the cloud supported SMEs that used £1.3

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OCP Feedback Survey: Closing the books on 2023 and looking towards 2030

Open Contracting Partnership

Capability Capability is one area where we did not quite achieve our strategy targets, and in the final strategy average, 53% of partners reported a very high increase in their capacity to do open contracting work, coming in under our 60% target.

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Our 2030 vision: Better procurement for people and planet

Open Contracting Partnership

Over our last strategy from 2019-2023, we estimate that our work had an indirect positive impact on an estimated 209 million lives and US$116 billion dollars of public spending. Our bold new target firmly centers our work on this theme for the next six years. Open contracting has been the gift that keeps giving.