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You are here: Home » News and Analysis » Amicus Curiae Interventions Amicus Curiae Interventions Recent articles   Parties in NAFTA pharmaceuticals arbitration trade arguments on jurisdiction, as tribunal rejects amicus participation Dec 1, 2011   Tribunal rules that mining company failed to waive local court proceedings, thus precluding CAFTA arbitration against El Salvador; hearings in a parallel case to air jurisdictional arguments next week Mar 15, 2011   Hungary prevails in first of three Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) arbitrations over power pricing disputes; arbitrators affirm that “politics” is not a dirty word Sep 28, 2010   ANALYSIS: ECT’s stability clause does not immunize foreign investors from legal changes in Hungary; arbitrators see no clash between ECT and Hungary’s EU law obligations Sep 28, 2010   South Africa not prepared to let claimant walk away from ICSID claim without further conditions Nov 30, 2009   NGOs permitted to intervene in South Africa mining case and for second time at ICSID petitioners to see documents Oct 14, 2009   South Africa mining arbitration sees another amicus curiae intervention Sep 2, 2009   FREE: NGOs seek leave to intervene in ICSID arbitration arising out of South Africa’s treatment of foreign mining companies Jul 21, 2009   Canadian indigenous association writes to tribunal in support of claimants in NAFTA tobacco arbitration Feb 28, 2009   ANALYSIS: human rights law arguments figure prominently in NAFTA dispute over indigenous tobacco enterprise Feb 10, 2009   ICSID tribunal will permit European Commission to file legal brief in Energy Charter Treaty arbitration Dec 11, 2008   Claimant in garbage disposal dispute with Canada seeks closed-door hearings and wants amicus curiae to pay $25,000 fee Nov 12, 2008   Claimant and Canada exchange arguments in claim brought by US citizen for alleged expropriation of waste disposal business Nov 12, 2008   European Commission seeks to intervene as amicus curiae in ICSID arbitrations over Hungary's long-term power pacts Sep 17, 2008   IN-DEPTH: Other treaty breaches, including of Fair and Equitable Treatment standard, upheld in Biwater v. Tanzania Jul 28, 2008

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