John R. Crook - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT John R. Crook

• ICSID tribunal upholds the USA’s request for bifurcation of Keystone XL Pipeline arbitration, finding that jurisdictional objection relating to scope of NAFTA legacy provision is prima facie serious and essentially based on legal considerations
  May 12, 2023
• Tribunal hearing BIT claim against South Korea is revealed
  Apr 05, 2023
• Alexis Mourre is tapped to chair Keystone XL pipeline arbitration against the USA
  Sep 22, 2022
• Three are in place to hear highway dispute with Peru
  Jul 26, 2022
• Canadian non-disputing party submission in Lupaka v. Peru addresses sale of investment before the claim was lodged, rules of attribution, and substantive standards of treatment under the Canada-Peru FTA
  Jun 30, 2022
• Tribunal hearing gold mining arbitration against Peru is reconstituted
  Apr 22, 2022
• US court upholds Strabag v. Libya award, finding no excess of authority in tribunal majority’s refusal to set off advance payments from the compensation owed in relation to large-scale construction projects disrupted by the Libyan revolution
  Oct 01, 2021
• Analysis: MAKAE v. Saudi Arabia tribunal declines jurisdiction due to claimant’s lack of de facto control over the underlying investment
  Sep 10, 2021
• ICSID claim against Saudi Arabia fails for lack of jurisdiction
  Sep 08, 2021
• Eiser claimants lodge resubmission proceedings in long-running renewables dispute with Spain
  Aug 02, 2021
• An ICSID tribunal is in place to hear dispute arising from Peruvian gold mining project thwarted by community protests
  Feb 22, 2021
• Analysis: Final award in WWM v. Kazakhstan is partially set aside, as UK judge finds that the tribunal’s reasoning on causation and quantum was not debated by the parties
  Nov 24, 2020
• Analysis: In Strabag v. Libya, arbitrators find violations of umbrella and war losses clauses, but disagree on Libya’s right to set off advance payments
  Sep 23, 2020
• Strabag v. Libya award comes to light
  Sep 16, 2020
• Libya round-up: New tribunals, a discontinuation, and further details about a number of investment arbitrations against the state
  Aug 11, 2020
• [Updated with new document] Investors seek supplementary decision from Eiser v. Spain ad hoc committee
  Aug 01, 2020
• Micula brothers seek annulment of ICSID award which found that Romania was not liable for failing to rein in illegal black market for alcoholic beverages
  Jul 14, 2020
• Arbitrators uphold Austrian investor's claims against Libya
  Jun 30, 2020
• Analysis: Eiser v. Spain annulment committee stresses its role as guardian of the ICSID system, imposes a “high” bar for double hatting, and finds that numerous undisclosed past and present connections between an arbitrator and the claimants’ quantum experts warrants annulment of the underlying award
  Jun 12, 2020
• Breaking: 128+ million EUR Spanish renewables award is annulled, as ad-hoc committee finds fault with arbitrator's undisclosed relationship to claimants' damages experts
  Jun 11, 2020
• Analysis: In second Micula v. Romania award, arbitrators decide that Romania did not fail to rein in illegal black market for alcoholic beverages
  Mar 09, 2020
• Breaking: Micula brothers lose their second arbitration against Romania, as ICSID tribunal dismisses all claims
  Mar 05, 2020
• Balkans round-up: Slovenian and Macedonian cases are discontinued, Bulgaria case moves to the merits, and awards loom in a quartet of other cases in the region
  Feb 03, 2020
• Canadian investor World Wide Minerals secures $40 mil BIT award in decades-long fight over Kazakhstan uranium investment
  Oct 31, 2019
• Luxtona v. Russia: Canadian court rejects Russia's bid to disqualify expert in Yukos set-aside proceeding, and signals that it may reconsider prior ruling that would have allowed Russia to table new evidence
  Aug 05, 2019
• Tribunal finalized to hear French investor's claim against Saudi Arabia, with John R. Crook in the chair
  May 10, 2018
• Parties agree on John R. Crook to chair Macedonia mining arbitration
  Apr 24, 2018
• Rigo Sureda is tapped to chair NAFTA arbitration against Mexico, with former government lawyers as wing-arbitrators
  Jan 21, 2018
• Interim award in Luxtona v. Russia arbitration comes to light, offering new reasoning on provisional application of Energy Charter Treaty and Russia's attempted denial of benefits to this Yukos shareholder
  Jan 04, 2018
• ICSID selects three panellists to hear Spain's bid to overturn unfavourable solar-dispute award
  Oct 24, 2017
• Russia turns to Canadian and Swiss courts, seeking to set aside a pair of Yukos "second-wave" Energy Charter rulings - but Swiss bid is deemed premature
  Aug 10, 2017
• In depth: arbitrators in Eiser award deem ECT to protect against "total" and unreasonable regulatory change, but tax measure is excluded; Spain fails in bid to admit favourable SCC award into evidence
  May 11, 2017
• Spain's arbitral winning streak comes to a halt, as ICSID tribunal awards 128 million euro (plus interest) for changes made in solar sector
  May 05, 2017
• In second-wave Yukos arbitration, McLachlan and Rowley see Russia as provisionally bound by Energy Charter Treaty
  Feb 16, 2017
• ANALYSIS: where do matters stand with respect to Energy Charter Treaty claims against Spain?
  Sep 28, 2016
• UNCITRAL tribunal is finalized to hear second investor claim against Kazakhstan under long-dormant USSR-Canada investment treaty
  Aug 07, 2016
• ANALYSIS: As domestic courts second-guess arbitral verdicts in past Yukos cases, three more tribunals are currently assessing whether they have jurisdiction over Russia under ECT
  Apr 25, 2016
• In a dramatic holding, UNCITRAL tribunal finds that Kazakhstan is bound by terms of former USSR BIT with Canada
  Jan 28, 2016
• Libya round-up: new developments in set-aside and enforcement applications relating to billion dollar Kharafi award; tribunal in place to hear Austrian investor's claim
  Dec 21, 2015
• ICSID renewables claims against Spain reach 23, along with some signs of repeat arbitrator appointments - but no common chairs as yet
  Nov 17, 2015
• INVESTIGATION: as Yukos enforcement grabs headlines, Russia has faced at least 10 new treaty arbitrations since 2012, with others threatened
  Jul 14, 2015
• As tribunal is finalized for second Micula v. Romania ICSID arbitration, new developments come in relation to earlier award
  May 01, 2015
• Intra-EU treaty claims controversy: new decisions and developments in claims brought by EU investors vs. Spain and Hungary
  Dec 24, 2014
• Split between arbitrators on res judicata issue comes into focus as award is released from NAFTA pharmaceutical arbitration
  Oct 15, 2014
• Arbitrators see less favourable treatment of Canadian pharma facilities, but accept US explanation; "effective means" legal obligation also scrutinized
  Oct 15, 2014
• ANALYSIS: Tribunal's disagreement as to seat of arbitration highlights tension over treaty-parties' scope to sway their own courts on treaty interpretation
  Oct 15, 2014
• Central Asia Round-up: Updates on claims against Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
  Oct 15, 2014
• United States wins second straight arbitration with Apotex pharma company; majority finds that earlier NAFTA award is res judicata
  Aug 27, 2014
• As hearings kick off in Apotex v USA arbitration, new pleadings show continued sparring over Canadian drug companies' claim to own NAFTA-protected investments
  Nov 18, 2013
• Arbitrators selected to hear claims that Kyrgyzstan expropriated stake in Jerooy gold project; obscure multilateral treaty is one of several invoked by investor
  Nov 06, 2013
• Apotex Inc., fails to prove that it had an “investment” in U.S. territory entitled to NAFTA Chapter 11 protection
  Jul 02, 2013
• Tribunal nixes requests by Canadian arbitration lawyer and an unrelated NGO to intervene as amicus curiae in Apotex v. USA NAFTA arbitration
  Mar 19, 2013
• Jurisdictional disagreements are laid bare in NAFTA arbitration; Apotex production facilities located outside the United States figure prominently
  Jan 29, 2013
• Tribunal chosen to resolve pharma claims against U.S.A., and to rule whether MFN clause imports other obligations into NAFTA
  Jun 14, 2012
• Arbitrators in NAFTA arbitration reject all claims against United States in tobacco industry dispute
  Mar 06, 2011
• ANALYSIS: Tribunal in Grand River v. U.S.A. arbitration declines to import non-investment law obligations into NAFTA; role of other “relevant” legal obligations in treaty interpretation under Vienna Convention is not discussed
  Mar 06, 2011
• Briefs exchanged in Grand River Enterprises, et.al. v. USA; NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitration arises out of tobacco dispute
  Feb 10, 2009