Tag: jurisdiction

Компетенция без вопросов: как узбекский суд не учел арбитражную оговорку

Компетенция без вопросов: как узбекский суд не учел арбитражную оговорку

Summary: An Uzbek court of first instance heard several disputes arising out of unrelated contracts, and each contract had its own dispute resolution clause, including CIETAC arbitration. Neither of those clauses nor Uzbek procedural rules established a jurisdiction of that court of the first instance. Moreover, during the hearing of the case, one party duly […]

Tajik Flag Carrier Beats Enforcement of Arbitral Award in Leasing Dispute
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Tajik Flag Carrier Beats Enforcement of Arbitral Award in Leasing Dispute

The US District Court for the District of Columbia has declined to enforce a $20 million arbitral award and granted Tajik Air’s motion to dismiss the award enforcement action on the jurisdictional grounds. The Court found it lacked personal jurisdiction over Tajik Air, the State-owned entity, pursuant to the Due Process Clause of the Fifth […]

Baltic Arbitration Days-2017: issues discussed
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Baltic Arbitration Days-2017: issues discussed

Riga hosted the 6th DIS Baltic Arbitration Days which discussed arbitration of disputes involving states or state-owned entities, corporate disputes and reflected on the lessons taught by annulment or  unenforceability of major arbitral awards in recent past. The conference was organised by BNT attorneys-at-law – one of leading international law firms in Central and Eastern […]

Российские суды подтвердили, что корпоративные споры были арбитрабельны и до принятия нового законодательства об арбитраже

Российские суды подтвердили, что корпоративные споры были арбитрабельны и до принятия нового законодательства об арбитраже

В настоящее время широко обсуждается реформа российского законодательства об арбитраже (третейском разбирательстве), в том числе, в контексте вопроса об арбитрабельности корпоративных споров. Теперь в ст. 225.1 Арбитражного процессуального кодекса Российской Федерации («АПК РФ») прямо закреплено, что такие споры могут быть переданы на рассмотрение третейского суда. Однако, как подтвердила новейшая судебная практика, такая возможность существовала и ранее. […]

Russia losing battles but winning wars with foreign investors: cases overview

Russia losing battles but winning wars with foreign investors: cases overview

More often than not, foreign investors reach some success in arbitration cases against Russia. However, obtaining ultimate remuneration for their efforts usually becomes a long and evasive target, because the award either gets annulled or faces insurmountable enforcement difficulties. Many international treaties of the Russian Federation including those concluded by the USSR as its legal predecessor include a “narrow” […]

Stans Energy and Kutisay Mining v. Republic of Kyrgyzstan

Stans Energy and Kutisay Mining v. Republic of Kyrgyzstan

Kutisay & Stans Energy v Kyrgyz Republic, Moscow Arbitration, Award Annulment, Decision dated 27 July 2015  

Russian Courts Approach Framework Agreement’s Arbitration Clause

Russian Courts Approach Framework Agreement’s Arbitration Clause

Recent Russian commercial court judgments illustrate a new trend in the interpretation of framework supply agreements (“FSA”). The newly developed approach is supposed to become more sensitive to good faith, party willingness and intentions and factual and legal discourse. In Taganrog Automobile Plant v Hyundai Motor Company (case № 15AP-8173/2014) the courts implemented the Russian Supreme Commercial […]

Turkmenistan: Two Recent Decisions on Jurisdiction Prove that the BIT Matters
By 22 October, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

Turkmenistan: Two Recent Decisions on Jurisdiction Prove that the BIT Matters

This summer ICSID tribunals resolved jurisdictional challenges in two cases arising out of construction projects in Turkmenistan. In Kilic Insaat Ithalat Ihracat Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi v Turkmenistan (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/1) the tribunal decided that it does not have jurisdiction. It held that the investor failed to litigate its claims in the Turkmen courts […]

TransTeleCom Dispute: When is a Side a Not a Party?

TransTeleCom Dispute: When is a Side a Not a Party?

This article follows up on an earlier publication dealing with the Vega Engineering v TransTeleCom case. In that dispute, TransTeleCom raised various grounds to challenge the arbitral award, which were all considered by the Russian Arbitrazh Court.  One of the grounds – finality of the arbitral award – was discussed in the article mentioned above.online pharmacy […]

ICSID Tribunal Refuses Jurisdiction in a Dispute Against Kazakhstan

ICSID Tribunal Refuses Jurisdiction in a Dispute Against Kazakhstan

According to the Kazakh Ministry of Justice, a foreign company which initiated a dispute against Kazakhstan has failed to establish that it was controlled by a national of a state party to the ICSID Convention. The ICSID tribunal in Caratube International Oil Company v Kazakhstan decided that the claim was brought by a Kazakh company which failed […]