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Jan 7, 2025 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Pamela McDonald |Sylvia Tonova
Pamela McDonald and Sylvia Tonova, international arbitration specialists at Pinsent Masons, commented after the publication of the first edition of the GAR 100 “data report”. This report produced by Global Arbitration Review provides analysis of more than 11,000 international arbitration cases that went to hearings between 2014 and 2023 inclusive.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Olivier Bustin |Sylvia Tonova
The three countries announced their withdrawal from ECOWAS - a regional group of 15 nations focused on economic integration and collaboration among its members - in January. Before the announcement, all three countries were subject to political and economic sanctions by ECOWAS following military coups.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Edward James |Sylvia Tonova |Alastair Dale |Aleesha Way
The proposed reform, contained in the Minerals Regulation Commission Bill, aims to establish a new regulator to oversee and regulate mineral-related activities and to ensure transparent and efficient management of mineral resources. However, the bill has prompted concerns in the mining industry around its potential to deter mining investment in Zambia.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Edward James |Sylvia Tonova |Aleesha Way |Alexis Coleman
In a significant move aimed at bolstering local participation in the mining sector, the Botswanan government set out plans to amend the existing Mines and Minerals Act. “Whilst Botswana has historically been considered the cleanest country in Africa from a corruption perspective, it is not immune from corruption risk and companies will need to tread carefully if the new law is introduced,” said Edward James, anti-corruption and bribery law expert at Pinsent Masons.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Scheherazade Dubash |Sylvia Tonova
The last Conservative government introduced an Arbitration Bill into parliament in 2023, seeking to implement recommendations made by the Law Commission of England and Wales. The Law Commission had undertaken a near year-long review of the existing Arbitration Act 1996 and identified areas that would benefit from targeted reform.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Scheherazade Dubash |Sylvia Tonova
According to its 2023 casework report (28-page PDF/892KB), parties from 141 countries and territories were involved in a total of 890 new arbitration cases filed with the ICC Court. While parties from Europe (40%) and the Americas (27%) accounted for the largest proportion of parties at the ICC in 2023, Asia and the Pacifics represented the third largest region (25%). However, the ICC has also in recent years become a popular venue among parties from the Middle East and Africa.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Sylvia Tonova
The study (104 pages / 1.3 MB) is the first published by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on the enforcement of ICSID arbitral awards and usefully complements other background papers on the functioning of the ICSID Convention. It is also the most comprehensive study on enforcement of ICSID awards so far.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Pamela McDonald |Sylvia Tonova
Pinsent Masons’ international arbitration experts have created a series of articles containing our insights into global developments in arbitration across key geographies over the past 12 months, as well as our predictions and observations in relation to a series of specialist areas in which we expect to see developments in the year ahead.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Pamela McDonald |Sylvia Tonova
The past a few years has seen a series of events cause massive economic disruption: oil price volatility, the Covid-19 pandemic, unprecedented modern inflation spikes, the war in Ukraine, climate risk, energy security, increasing reports of cyber attacks, Israeli military action in Gaza and China’s increased military presence in the South China Sea causing US-China relations to become more complex.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Scheherazade Dubash |Sylvia Tonova |Adam Cain
The new BIT, not yet in force, was signed on 13 February and will supersede the current BIT between both countries which was signed on 12 December 2013 and came into force on 21 August 2014. The precise scope of investor protections under the new BIT remains to be seen, but until the new treaty enters into force, the current BIT will continue to prevail. So far, at least two cases have been invoked under the current BIT with notices of arbitration filed in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
