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06 February 2025

Convention on the Establishment of the International Organization for Mediation to be signed in Hong Kong in 2025

New body headquartered in Hong Kong will be first intergovernmental organisation dedicated to mediation against backdrop of increasing interest in …
07 March 2018

Security for costs granted by English Court in investment treaty award challenge in which claimants are receiving third-party funding

In its recent judgment in Progas Energy Limited and ors v Pakistan [2018], the English High Court (the Court) granted Pakistan's request for security for …
13 July 2016

High Court rules that the principle of non-justiciability, unlike state immunity, cannot be waived

In a recent judgment of 21 June 2016 on a number of summary judgment applications in the case of High Commissioner for Pakistan in the United Kingdom …
09 September 2013

Pakistan Supreme Court declares a contract – and the arbitration clause within that contract – void on public policy grounds

In a decision earlier this year the Pakistan Supreme Court declared that a joint venture agreement between a local development authority and BHP for the …