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    “Anyone can make claims” – is the KiK case proof of access to remedies for corporate human rights violations?

    Claudia Müller-Hoff and Dr Carolijn Terwindt look at how victims of a factory fire in Pakistan have managed to bring a civil claim against a multinational company in ...

    On March 7, 2018 / By Legal Support Service
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    Framing the Public Policy Exception: view from the Caribbean

    What level of deference should be given to a tribunal’s award when illegality is alleged? Angeline Welsh takes a look at two recent decisions of the Caribbean Court ...

    On January 25, 2018 / By Legal Support Service
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    The view from France: Arbitral awards – Supreme Court rules on commercial contract vitiated by corruption

    Our comparative law strand continues with analysis by Quentin Declève of an important recent decision of the French Supreme Court, upholding two decisions of the Paris Court of ...

    On December 15, 2017 / By Quentin Declève
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    The view from India: Delhi High Court upholds a jurisdiction agreement in favour of the English Commercial Court

    The High Court in Delhi has upheld a jurisdiction clause conferring jurisdiction on the Commercial Court in London. It held that where a jurisdiction clause refers to a ...

    On November 23, 2017 / By The Law Of Nations
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    The view from India: Supreme Court safeguards judicial comity in arbitration case

    Continuing our comparative law series, Moazzam Khan and Tanisha Khanna of Nishish Desai Associates look at an important recent decision of the Indian Supreme Court: Roger Shashoua & ...

    On September 27, 2017 / By The Law Of Nations
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    Immunity and expropriation in the US Supreme Court

    The view from the US: Ira Ryk-Lakhman considers the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Venezuela v Helmerich & Payne, dealing with the 'expropriation exception' under the ...

    On May 29, 2017 / By Ira Ryk-Lakhman
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    The view from the US: The Kiobel case, and how a little-known US law can be used as a litigation tool overseas

    Upasana Khatri of EarthRights International examines a new development in the long-running Kiobel litigation against Shell: how litigants abroad can seek pre-action discovery of documents in the US. ...

    On February 22, 2017 / By Upasana Khatri

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