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ICJ allows claims by Armenia and Azerbaijan to proceed
The International Court of Justice has found it can hear claims by Armenia against Azerbaijan relating to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, while narrowing the scope of parallel claims brought by Azerbaijan.
13 November 2024
Law firms in place for Iran-Pakistan pipeline claim
UPDATED: White & Case and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have been instructed to defend Pakistan in a multibillion-dollar arbitration recently launched by Iran over a gas pipeline project disrupted by US sanctions.
30 October 2024
Interstate arbitration led to loss of UK's last African colony
An interstate arbitration that ended a decade ago over the UK's conduct in relation to the strategically important Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean was one of a series of events that led to last week's announcement that the UK will return the territory, its last remaining African colony, to Mauritius.
10 October 2024
PCA to open in Delhi
Following a lengthy negotiation, the Permanent Court of Arbitration is to open an office in Delhi, across the road from the Indian Supreme Court.
19 September 2024
UN tribunal says states must protect seas from climate change
A United Nations tribunal has told states they must take all necessary measures to reduce carbon emissions to protect the world’s oceans.
21 May 2024
Panel in place for landmark biodiversity case
A panel has begun hearing the landmark inter-state arbitration Azerbaijan has filed against Armenia under the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats.
15 April 2024
India fails to block assignees from French enforcement battle
Three US entities that were assigned the rights to a US$111 million investment treaty award against India over a cancelled satellite deal have been allowed to intervene in French enforcement proceedings – as an appeal over a related award heads to the US Supreme Court.
21 February 2024
ICJ holds Russia liable but declines to award damages to Ukraine
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Russia breached international conventions against the financing of terrorism and racial discrimination following its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula – but rejected Ukraine’s requests for further relief, including its claims for damages.
31 January 2024
First inter-state ECT claim gets underway
UPDATED: A tribunal has begun hearing a first-of-its-kind arbitration brought by Azerbaijan against Armenia under the Energy Charter Treaty, one of the many legal proceedings arising from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
16 January 2024
Arbitrators challenged over declaration on “aggression in Ukraine”
Russia has challenged two arbitrators in an inter-state dispute because they voted in favour of a declaration by the Institute of International Law criticising Russian military operations in Ukraine.
03 January 2024