Three years more of Mourre

Alexis Mourre has been reappointed as president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration for a second term and will be assisted by a renewed, gender-equal court including 88 women and 88 men.

Investor in Pakistan seeks enforcement of one of ICSID's largest awards

A Turkish energy company has asked a court in Washington, DC, to enforce a US$845.89 million award – one of the largest in ICSID’s history – against Pakistan over the state’s detention of power generation vessels used to supply electricity to the port city of Karachi during a power crisis.

British beef producer asks US court to enforce ICSID award despite ongoing annulment proceeding

A beef-producing British family business has filed a petition in Washington, DC, to enforce a US$98 million ICSID award against Venezuela over the expropriation of its cattle farms, after the state’s repeated failure to pay costs advances for an ongoing annulment proceeding resulted in a stay of enforcement being lifted.

Oman applies to enforce against Al Tamimi’s brother

Oman has asked a court in the US state of Massachusetts to enforce an ICSID costs award against a UAE-born and US-based businessman who is the brother of leading arbitration lawyer Essam Al Tamimi.
Panama Canal award upheld in Florida

A Florida court has upheld an ICC award in favour of the Panama Canal Authority in one of a series of disputes with an engineering consortium over the costs of a project for the waterway’s expansion.
Who is sitting at ICSID?

In the past few weeks, ICSID has appointed familiar faces to tribunals hearing new claims against Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Mexico and Ivory Coast – while other panels have been reconstituted following resignations and a disqualification.

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Chevron chased for US$18 billion after “sham” Cairo award

Chevron is being chased for nearly US$18 billion in the US pursuant to what the energy company alleges is a sham award issued by a unlicensed Cairo body purporting to be an arbitration centre as part of a criminal enterprise.

English lawyer arrested in Geneva after blackmail complaint

Swiss authorities have detained the British founder of a Geneva arbitration boutique as they investigate claims that he tried to blackmail one of his former clients by going public with false allegations that they were involved in financing terrorism.

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