18-Jan-2021
Financial Express Bangladesh
Corporate globalisation and Covid-19 should also have taught developing countries that they must reject FTAs strengthening IPRs, ISDS and TNCs in order to secure policy space to 'build back better'.
11-Jan-2021
Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The EU-UK agreement contains limited protections for investors and no investor-state enforcement mechanism. Its dispute resolution mechanism is limited to a “WTO-like” state-to-state arbitration.
11-Jan-2021
South China Morning Post
Draft text shows Beijing looked to withhold telecoms sector benefits to firms from countries with restrictions on Chinese telecoms companies.
11-Jan-2021
The International News
The High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has postponed the hearing on the enforcement of the $6 billion award in the Reko Diq case until the 18th January.
11-Jan-2021
New Statesman
Law firms have been drawing investors’ attention to how they could pass their Covid-19-related losses onto states.
5-Jan-2021
Thomson Reuters
Sempra v Argentina: award annulled for manifest excess of powers in failure to apply BIT defence of necessity