Exploiting natural resources, manufacturing products and growing food in space are now well within the realms of possibility. Identifying, assessing and mitigating disputes risks arising from these activities pose a...more
10/4/2023
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The Net Zero transition will not be smooth. The scale of the investment required and the appetite and ability of countries to implement new policy – both now and in the years to come – will cause unprecedented disruption and...more
4/20/2023
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Paris Agreement
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement announced the introduction of a new windfall tax of 45% on the “extraordinary profits” of low carbon electricity generators, via the Electricity Generator Levy (the Generator Levy)....more
On 26 October 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) delivered its judgment in Case C‑109/20, Republic of Poland v PL Holdings S.á r.l. (PL Holdings)....more
On 2 September 2021, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) delivered its judgment in Case C-741/19, Republic of Moldova v Komstroy LLC, finding that the acquisition of a claim arising...more
An introduction to the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) -
Introduction -
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada that provisionally entered into force...more
Introduction -
In a decision rendered on 18 June 2019 (joint Cases T 624/15, T 694/15 and T 704/15), the General Court of the European Union (the Court) annulled the European Commission’s (the EC) decision 2015/1570 of 30...more
ICSID tribunal retains jurisdiction, rejecting Germany and European Commission’s arguments that intra-EU arbitration under ECT incompatible with EU law -
On 31 August 2018, the arbitral Tribunal hearing the claim by...more
On 6 March 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the Court) delivered its judgment in Case C-284/16, Slovakia Republic v Achmea B.V., declaring that the investor-State arbitration provision in the bilateral...more
If it ever sees the light of day (and the politics on both sides of the Atlantic are complicated), it will be a broad free trade agreement (FTA) with 24 chapters on, among other things, market access for goods and services,...more