Arbitrator disqualified over ties to Kazakh judges

08 May 2018

Rolf Knieper (Credit: Russian-Armenian University)

German arbitrator Rolf Knieper has been disqualified from hearing a US energy company’s ICSID claim against Kazakhstan because of his relationship with members of the country’s judiciary whose rulings are at issue in the case.

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