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THE EU AND CANADA ADOPT PROCEDURAL RULES FOR THE CETA INVESTMENT COURT SYSTEM
European Commission issues procedural proposals for the Investment Court System envisaged under CETA
In October 2019, the European Commission (the "Commission") presented four proposals (the "Proposals") to the Council of the European Union (the …
CJEU CONFIRMS THAT CETA DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROVISION IS COMPATIBLE WITH EU LAW
Advocate General finds that CETA's "Investment Court System" is compatible with EU law
One of the Advocates General to the Court of Justice of the European Union, Advocate General Bot, has issued an opinion confirming that the mechanism for …
CETA UPDATE: CETA is signed; Provisional application of CETA and Brexit; First government-to-government meeting to discuss establishing the multi-lateral investment court system
On 30 October 2016, the EU and Canada signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (the CETA). As explained in our blog post here, the …
"Legal scrubbing" of the CETA results in adoption of an Investment Court System for resolving Investor-State disputes: a clear signal to the US for the TTIP negotiations?
On Friday 26 September 2014, after five years of negotiations, the EU and Canada released the agreed text for the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement …
NAFTA tribunal considers issues of res judicata and the customary international law minimum standard of treatment
In Apotex Holdings Inc. and Apotex Inc. v United States of America, (ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/12/1), a NAFTA chapter eleven …
Long-awaited EU-Canada trade agreement agreed - a blueprint to set the standard for future investment protection?
On Friday 26 September, after five years of negotiations, the EU and Canada agreed in principle to a text for the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement …
Europe consults on investment protection and ISDS in the TTIP
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on its proposed approach to investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) …
A matter of class: the spectre of class action arbitration in consumer product disputes
Class arbitrations have primarily been viewed as an instrument of the US legal system. However, given the international capability and procedural …