Sentences with phrase «international tribunals on»

He has given evidence in a broad variety of civil courts and both domestic and international tribunals on more than 20 occasions over a period of 30 years as a testifying expert and has sat as an arbitrator, adjudicator or mediator on over 80 occasions.

Among them an international tribunal on violations of the Charter's rights.

Not exact matches

«It's a fight we don't want to have, though, because while these fights can drag on in international trade tribunals for years it really puts the pinch on smaller producers... In the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.»

He provides a clear summary of international human rights law for the general reader, including a wealth of detail on the manifold human rights operations of the UN, on U.S. human rights policies over the years, and on regional human rights tribunals in Europe and Latin America.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

When interpreting the Bill of Rights, a court, tribunal or forum must promote the values that underlie an open and democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom; must consider international law; and may consider foreign law.

No, if he does so, he would be a war criminal on international scale who could be tried in another country or by a special international tribunal.

Among Bolivia's demands are the establishment of an international climate justice tribunal, a global referendum on mitigation strategies, and the ratification of legal rights for the pachamama.

«I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead.»

This deference is present whether the board in question is a «statutory» or a private tribunal (on the distinction in the labour relations context, see Roberval Express Ltée v. Transport Drivers, Warehousemen and General Workers Union, Local 106, [1982] 2 S.C.R. 888, Howe Sound Co. v. International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Canada), Local 663, [1962] S.C.R. 318, affirming (1961), 29 D.L.R. (2d) 76, Re International Nickel Co. of Canada and Rivando, [1956] O.R. 379 (C.A.)-RRB- It is based on the idea that if the courts are available to the parties as an alternative forum, violence is done to a comprehensive statutory scheme designed to govern all aspects of the relationship of the parties in a labour relations setting.

The most interesting point about these wide divergences between different Tribunals on rather fundamental points of EU and international law is how little they seem to matter.

First, with regard to the judicial avenues foreign investors have against host - states, three come to mind: (a) bringing a claim before an investor - state tribunal; (b) bringing a claim before a domestic court, based on domestic and / or international standards of protection; and (c) private commercial arbitration based on a contract between the investor and the host ‑ State.

In my research on general principles of law in the decisions of international criminal tribunals, I've found that the domestic legal systems that are most frequently invoked by the tribunals are, by far, those of Western Europe (in particular those of Germany, France, and England and Wales).

Even without the detailed statistics, the ICC Report gives great insights on how arbitral tribunals award costs in international arbitration.

Courts have rejected challenges under article V (1)(d) where the parties choose institutional rules to govern their procedure that provide for flexibility concerning the manner in which the tribunal is to be composed.881 On the other hand, a German court refused recognition and enforcement where an award was rendered by two, instead of three arbitrators, as expressly required by the rules of the International Arbitration Court of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce that the parties had agreed would govern their arbitration.882

Helping to align investment arbitration with the functioning and the results of other systems of public law adjudication can contribute to forming an emerging consensus on the many contested issues in international investment law and afford legitimacy to the dispute settlement activity of investor - State arbitral tribunals.

He has also advised several international organizations on the establishment and functioning of their international administrative tribunals.

Whether unlawful & whether tribunal compliant with ECHR, Art 6, EU Charter, Art 47; whether panel member a de facto judge or whether de facto judge principle unlawful by virtue of Art 14 of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights.

Focused on international law, cooperation and trade, it includes decisions of international courts and tribunals, treaties and international agreements, international law journals, and law reform materials.

The Note expressly encourages parties and tribunals to adopt the IBA Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration, where appropriate.

Like the widely used IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration, the IBA guidelines only apply if the parties agree to adopt them or if the arbitral tribunal has determined that it has authority to rule on matters of party representation.

His Lordship emphasised the importance of upholding party choice vis - à - vis the arbitral process — irrespective of the fact that no party has any choice about whether to arbitrate, let alone decide the composition of the tribunal, when they contract with CSAT; some explain this on the basis that CSAT is a special case, being a tribunal of an international organisation.

The term of legal autonomy comprises thus for Gragl four «imperatives» that the Court has developed, with the consequence of some serious constraints imposed by the CJEU under its vigilant protection of legal autonomy on Member States choice and utilization of other international courts and tribunals and on the jurisdiction of such courts and tribunals (p. 84).

Chapter 4 turns to the impact of the somewhat «isolationist» approach found in the Court's case law on international law; it does so by scrutinizing the relationship of the CJEU with a number of other international courts and tribunals, recalling for this purpose in particular the MOX plant controversy and the legal controversy surrounding the creation of the European Economic Area and the EFTA Court.

In brief, the approach conceives of investment treaty arbitration as a form of public law, and calls for tribunals to draw on comparative domestic constitutional and administrative law, as well as other regimes of international public law such as WTO law and human rights law, to give content to the often vaguely - worded standards of typical investment treaties.

International arbitration is a Shearman trademark, and during the time of our research it was fighting for the largest potential award in arbitral tribunal history, a whopping $ 50 billion from Russia on behalf of former controlling shareholders of bankrupt oil giant Yukos.

As an arbitrator, Mr. Bruner has chaired or served on numerous U.S. and International arbitration tribunals.

The Clinic represents clients in litigation before international, foreign, and domestic tribunals, and collaborates with organizational partners on human rights advocacy campaigns, documentation projects, legislative advocacy, report - writing, and research.

While the Human Rights Committee has not determined that «extraordinary» tribunals or «special» courts are incompatible with the requirement that tribunals be established by law, it has taken the position that the provision is intended to ensure that any court, be it «extraordinary» or not, should genuinely afford the accused the full guarantees of fair trial set out in Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

We advise domestic and international organisations on every stage of the employment cycle in relation to employment instructions, pensions and incentives services, tribunal and court representation, relocation services, data protection, immigration or licensing advice.

Pursuant to Harder and Sterling O & G International Corp v Director of Employment Standards Division (Man), 2012 MBCA 18 (CanLII), 275 ManR (2d) 280 (at para 19), the law is ``... essentially settled that a question of statutory interpretation by a tribunal of its own statute will be reviewed on the standard of reasonableness».

On April 4, 2016, a tribunal constituted under the Additional Facility to the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) upheld Crystallex's claims that Venezuela failed to accord fair and equitable treatment to the Vancouver - based company's investment in the Las Cristinas mining project and unlawfully expropriated the company's investments without compensation.

He has served as chairman, party - appointed arbitrator, or sole arbitrator on international arbitral tribunals in both «ad hoc» (including UNCITRAL) and institutional arbitrations under the Rules of, inter alia,

He acts for a range of local and international corporations as well as UAE government entities with a specialist focus on arbitration and all types of commercial and rental disputes before courts and tribunals.

Diego Cadena is an Ecuadorian lawyer with the international arbitration and litigation group in Washington, D.C.. His practice focuses on comparative law and international dispute resolution, especially in cases involving the representation of clients before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationinternational arbitration and litigation group in Washington, D.C.. His practice focuses on comparative law and international dispute resolution, especially in cases involving the representation of clients before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationinternational dispute resolution, especially in cases involving the representation of clients before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationInternational Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationInternational Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationInternational Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationalinternational tribunals.

(a) In Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Ltd v Avant Garde Maritime Services (Private) Limited [2018] SGHC 78 («Rakna Arakshaka»), the Singapore High Court held that where a tribunal had ruled on its own jurisdiction as a preliminary question, the party wishing to challenge the tribunal's jurisdiction had to bring that issue to the supervisory court within 30 days of receipt of notice of the tribunal's ruling, pursuant to Article 16 (3) of the UNCITRAL Model Law («Model Law «-RRB-, read with section 10 (3) of the International Arbitration Act («IAA «-RRB-.

He has for many years advised sovereign states on disputes in international tribunals and particularly specialises in work involving governments in sub-Saharan Africa.

Representing Italy in a dispute with India before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and an arbitral tribunal constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea concerning which of them has criminal jurisdiction over two Italian marines accused of wrongdoing off the coast of India.

Therefore, it should also be irrelevant whether investment tribunals offer their views on relevant EU law, and if so whether it is considered as part of domestic or international law.

Garwill Law provides expert legal advice on customs and excise, tariff and excise tax, international trade law, constitutional and Charter law, immigration determinations, and administrative law (such as procedural fairness, reasonable apprehension of bias, or due process in courts and tribunals).

When on 1 December 2014 the Appeals Chamber upheld the decision of Trial Chamber I to condemn Thomas Lubanga Dyilo to 14 years of imprisonment for the enlistment and conscription of children under the age of 15, the Congolese warlord, who had already gone down in history as the first person transferred to the International Criminal Court, became also the first war criminal to serve a final sentence given by the internatioInternational Criminal Court, became also the first war criminal to serve a final sentence given by the internationalinternational tribunal.

But the great difficulty in international arbitration is that, as the rules on legal privilege and professional confidentiality vary from country to country and the Sealed Offer is unknown outside England and a few other countries, a party or its lawyer can not be confident that its adversary, its lawyer and the individual members of the tribunal will respect the confidentiality of a Sealed Offer.

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators conference on 13 November 2016 opened the week with a keynote address by Vincent Moran QC of Keating Chambers on «Turbulent and troublesome tribunals and the appearance of bias» and panel discussion on «What makes an effective and efficient seat in international arbitration?».

In 2013, the International Bar Association published its Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration, to which arbitral tribunals may make reference.

Laurel S. Terry, Handout: Codes of Conduct for International Tribunals and Arbitration for Panel Session on Challenges of Transnational Legal Practice: Advocacy and Ethics at the American Society of International Law 103rd Annual Meeting, March 27, 2009, Washington, DC

In an earlier phase of international investment, when investors were more likely to challenge outright expropriations or other forms of bad - faith conduct, the availability of impartial tribunals was seen as a valuable check on host state abuse.

He has appeared and given oral evidence in court and at tribunals on 48 separate occasions, at both a UK and international level.

Laurel S. Terry, Codes of Conduct for International Tribunals and Arbitration (Prepared for the 2009 ASIL Annual Meeting)(includes, inter alia, counsel codes of conduct for the ICC, ICTY, ICTR, the U.N. Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors, and the International Prosecutors Association Standards of Professional Responsibility and Statement of the Essential Duties and Rights of Prosecutors)

Courts can take shortcuts by focusing their research on salient indicia of state practice in the form of treaties and important decisions from international tribunals, but those examples usually seem to tell only part of the story.

Advising a major global international bank on a range of employment tribunal claims, including multi-strand and high value claims for discrimination and whistleblowing, and claims arising out of LIBOR regulatory investigations