Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 2, 2024

Brigitte Stern and Dr. Andrés Rigo Sureda (President) issued a final award (“Award”) in an investment treaty case PCA 2019-15 (“Dispute”), between Worley International Inc. In this post, we describe the factual background of the dispute and examine the jurisdictional and admissibility issues regarding allegations of corrupt and illegal acts.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We have released an update in November 2019 on the datasets collected on development projects, public tenders, and contracts for three major donor agencies: the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and EuropeAid.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As recently as FY 2019, the CFTC Whistleblower Program only received 455 tips. “The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), recently revealed that the SEC Whistleblower Program also received a record number of whistleblower tips in FY 2023. The CFTC’s record number of whistleblower tips underscores the continued growth of the program.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

decided by the STJ in 2019. In that case, minority shareholders initiated arbitration against the Federal Government, seeking damages for losses in Petrobras’ share value (the Brazilian state-owned oil company), which they attributed to the purported negative impacts of corruption within the organization, revealed by Operation Car Wash.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ultimately, thanks to Roll’s disclosure, 555 sub-postmasters successfully took legal action against the Post Office in 2019. Organisations should roll out the red carpet because whistleblowers are the first line of defense against crime, corruption, and coverup,” said Georgina Halford-Hall. Whistleblowing should not be difficult.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The third judgment, with a comment by Etienne Marque, is the latest saga in the remarkable string of French cases pursuant to which the annulment judge is granted the power to investigate all the elements of corruption in law and in fact. 6 ECHR would be available.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

On December 10, 2019, the Emergency Arbitrator, Nicolas Gamboa Morales, denied Eurofinsa’s request for emergency measures and, as a consequence, on December 18, 2019, two guarantee bonds issued in favor of the Ministry of Environment and Water were executed.

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Federal News Network

MAY 16, 2024

And we’ve been around since late 2019. Tom Temin And since 2019, how busy has the strike force been? Since 2019, we’ve opened more than 100 criminal investigations. It’s not like India or Russia where bribery and corruption is the norm. And our mission is really two pronged. Are we still in that place?

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Part of a crew established to prepare Teslas for delivery to Norwegian customers, Krupski was hailed a hero by CEO Elon Musk when he put out a fire catalyzed by an improperly modified charging device, severely burning his hands, at a motor show in Oslo in 2019.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

From late 2019 through 2022, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued twenty-one whistleblower awards to individuals who provided high-quality information about wildlife crime. From November 21, 2019 through August 12, 2022, FWS paid out twenty-one whistleblower awards.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

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.

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University of Bristol

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Blockchain’s touted tamper-proofness and potential to enable smart contracts are driving initiatives that seek to create automated ‘trust in trustless environments’ for public sector use cases , in particular concerning activities highly-exposed to corruption risks and/or the automation of administrative procedures devoid of discretion.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 8, 2024

It found that neither the contract nor the addendum was void due to the corruption allegations. In 2019, Rutas de Lima initiated a second arbitration seeking damages resulting from the Municipality de Lima’s refusal to permit the agreed toll rate increase in December 2017. In 2020, the arbitral tribunal rendered its decision.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 23, 2024

In a first decision of 30 September 2019 , the Qatari Appeal Court answered the question in the negative, refusing to set aside an award rendered under the rules of the Qatar International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA) that had awarded interest.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 3, 2024

law while streamlining the fight against animal trade and trafficking corruption. In 2019 and again in 2021, Representatives Don Young (R-AK) and John Garamendi (D-CA) introduced the bipartisan Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act (WCATA). NWC educates whistleblowers on the rights they are entitled to under U.S.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 21, 2024

How It Started In 2019, the year before the pandemic, international arbitrator Lucy Greenwood looked behind her at the end of a hearing. Lucy Greenwood launched the Green Pledge with her 2019 blog post – A Zero-Impact Arbitration? This year marks a milestone for the CGA as it celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Green Pledge.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 23, 2024

In 2019, Kaga-Fujitsu Electronics sued Cypress in California state court for breach of contract, and Cypress filed a cross-complaint against Kaga-Fujitsu Electronics and Fujitsu Semiconductor. In 2016, Spansion assigned its rights and obligations under the earlier Foundry Agreement to Cypress. Ltd. (“Kaga”). McDonnell , 403 F.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 20, 2024

unofficial translation) When a dispute arose in 2019, PPSB initiated arbitration and requested the Judge of the District Court of Rotterdam (“the District Court”) to appoint an arbitrator in accordance with Article 1027(3) of the Dutch Arbitration Act (“DAA”).

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 2, 2024

decision 4A_306/2019 of 25 March 2020, para. More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190 decision 4A_398/2021 of 20 May 2022, para.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

and Singapore 2) For example, under the Payment Services Act 2019 of Singapore , cryptocurrencies are considered digital payment tokens regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This reform built on the groundbreaking promulgation of the new Government Tenders and Procurement Law in 2019, which allowed for the first time for the use of arbitration in government contracts. The KSA’s Government Tenders and Procurement Law also received an important update in June 2023 with the issuance of Resolution No.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 25, 2024

federal courts between 2011 and 2019. More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190 Federal Courts: An Empirical Study, 65 VA. forthcoming 2024).

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 8, 2024

The Claimant commenced court proceedings in 2019 seeking to be paid under the insurance policy for the value of the property which became uninhabitable following a partial collapse of the cliff on which the property was built. Patterson Bannon Architects Ltd & ors [2019] IEHC 311 and K&J Townmore Construction Limited v.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 23, 2024

Unlike some of the other instruments discussed in the Working Group, the idea of an advisory centre enjoyed general support among delegations from the start (Working Group III, October 2019 Session Report , para. 28, and September 2022 Session Report , paras. 37, and January 2024 Session Report , paras. 43 and 85).

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In 2024, we look towards implementation of the resolution and participation at the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Lithuania this summer. Together with the global community, we were able to close out 2023 with a big advocacy win, with the UN’s first ever resolution on public procurement passed in December.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The keynote address also offered insights into ICC case statistics, revealing Paris as the consistent top choice throughout the years, 2008-2022, except for two instances in 2019 and 2021 when London briefly took the lead.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

0198-2018-CCL, 30 August 2019 Marianella Ventura Silva, ITA Reporter for the Centro de Arbitraje de la Cámara de Comercio de Lima (CCL) In this case, the arbitral tribunal determined jurisdictional matters in a partial award, in which it decided on its competence. Viettel Perú S.A.C. Electronorte S.A.) Savia Perú S.A.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And NASA’s had a requirement since, I think, 2019 to have cybersecurity requirements for the missions they fly. And so we need solutions that can help protect against memory corruption vulnerabilities, where an adversary can use an external interface or sensor or a wireless communications interface and take over that space system.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 6, 2023

7413-2019 ). 4394-2019 and Case No. More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190 On the other hand, when Article 34 No. 6975-2012 ).

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 19, 2024

The alleged trust declarations were either issued before the Fund had acquired legal personality in 2019, rendering them ineffective, or they did not adhere to the stringent legal requirements for establishing a trust in land as mandated by 53(1)(b) of the Law of Property Act 1925. In particular, s.53(1)(b) 53(1)(a) and s.53(1)(c)

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Introduced in 2019, this law emphasized the importance of economic freedom, good faith, and the respect for contracts. General Company for Ports of Iraq (2019) and Gasum v. General Company for Ports of Iraq (2019) and Gasum v. Through an array of case studies, 2) Prof. 19222/20.1T8LSB.L1-6 ↑ 2 Prof. 19222/20.1T8LSB.L1-6

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 9, 2024

This discussion resulted in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act being amended in 2015 to clarify that foreign awards would only be considered contrary to public policy if, for example, the award was affected by fraud or corruption or contravened the fundamental policy of Indian law.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

Enhancing the transparency of government in general and of public procurement processes in particular has been increasingly on the agenda of governments, civil societies and businesses as evidenced by initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership which has seen 70 OGP members making 189 open contracting commitments by March 2019 [1].

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Amongst others, I faced several criminal charges in 2019 relating to certain acts allegedly committed during my earlier tenure as Director of AIAC. I am gratified to be back at the helm of AIAC five years after my previous tenure. As your readers may be aware, the past few years have been challenging for me.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Absent agreement on a tribunal, the claimants applied to the Madrid Superior Court (MSC) which in 2019 appointed Dr. Gonzalo Stampa as sole arbitrator. In 2017 the heirs, having failed to persuade the UK government to appoint a person to perform the Consul-General’s role, gave notice of arbitration. Dr. Stampa determined a Spanish seat.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Delhi High Court Judgment Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the resolution plan was implemented and Arcelor Mittal acquired Essar in 2019. In 2021, Indian Oil pursued claims against Arcelor Mittal for amounts allegedly owed under the GSA, now amounting to approximately USD 1.4

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 21, 2024

The Contractor and Subcontractor Entered into a Framework Agreement Containing an Arbitration Clause, Covering Three Work-Orders That Were Secured by the Subcontractor’s Insurer In December 2019, Swinerton engaged Northern as a subcontractor under a Master Subcontract Agreement (“MSA”).

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