Joan Donoghue - ARBITRATOR PROFILE AND APPOINTMENTS

RECENT IAREPORTER COVERAGE ABOUT Joan Donoghue

• International Court of Justice finds that it has jurisdiction to examine facts that occurred after the instrument of consent had ceased to be in force
  Apr 22, 2022
• Analysis: ICJ orders Russia to suspend military operations based on the Genocide Convention; a minority of judges disagrees on the scope of the court's prima facie jurisdiction and the plausibility of Ukraine’s rights
  Mar 17, 2022
• ICJ issues provisional measures under Genocide Convention, ordering Russia to immediately suspend military operations in Ukraine
  Mar 16, 2022
• Analysis: International Court of Justice rules on compensation for unlawful war conduct, emphasizing that causation and burden of proof may vary depending on the circumstances
  Feb 22, 2022
• ICJ awards 325 million USD to the Democratic Republic of Congo over past military invasion
  Feb 09, 2022
• UNCITRAL tribunal dismisses treaty-based claims against Ethiopia
  Jul 12, 2021
• In Qatar v. UAE ICJ case, 11-6 majority finds that Convention against racial discrimination does not apply to differential treatment based on current nationality
  Feb 04, 2021
• On heels of an ICJ Judge accepting China’s invitation to sit in investor-state arbitration, the Court makes public its guidelines designed to curb such appointments
  Dec 23, 2020
• Analysis: in previously-confidential SolEs Badajoz v. Spain award, arbitrators lay out reasons for finding jurisdiction and awarding €40 million to investor for breach of the ECT
  Sep 04, 2019
• Breaking: Spain ordered to pay Sol Es Badajoz GmbH 40+ million (EUR) in Energy Charter Treaty case heard by Donoghue, Williams and Sacerdoti
  Aug 01, 2019
• Annulment committees weigh in with decisions on a pair of awards against Venezuela
  Apr 30, 2019
• ICJ President reveals that ICJ judges will not participate in investor-state arbitration in the future
  Oct 27, 2018
• Three are picked to hear Kazakhstan's effort to overturn arbitral award in Aktau Petrol case
  Mar 26, 2018
• Joan Donoghue is selected by appointing authority to chair Israel Chemical's BIT claim against Ethiopia
  Dec 13, 2017
• ICSID committee suspends annulment proceedings and lifts stay on enforcement in Vestey v. Venezuela
  Oct 27, 2017
• While rejecting merits of pending challenge, Alexandrov resigns, citing the fact that one of his two co-arbitrators has seeming doubts of his impartiality; Joubin-Bret also steps aside to take key UNCITRAL post
  Oct 26, 2017
• Co-arbitrators declare themselves to be "equally divided" on challenge to third tribunal member, thus putting ICSID in the driver's seat
  Oct 21, 2017
• Spain follows up on its annulment strategy by filing a request to disqualify arbitrator
  Sep 18, 2017
• International Court of Justice to have rare opportunity to weigh in on meaning of Fair and Equitable Treatment and other investment protections
  Mar 23, 2017
• Three named to hear Venezuela's attempt to overturn ICSID award in favour of UK agribusiness
  Nov 09, 2016
• Spain update: more claims surface in Stockholm and at ICSID, and several new tribunals are finalized
  Mar 03, 2016
• ANALYSIS: Arbitrators examine whether Indonesia’s regulatory oversight of bank amounts to “de facto” admission for purposes of bilateral investment treaty
  Nov 18, 2013
• In separate opinion, Prof. Sornarajah says UK BIT protects only “direct” investments, and Indonesia's “post-entry” regulation of banks is never akin to admission
  Nov 18, 2013
• Tribunal dismisses investor claim against Indonesia after debate over implications of UK investment treaty’s admission clause
  Jul 17, 2013
• As foreign investors arbitrate with India, the International Court of Justice could play an unusual role
  Nov 12, 2012
• Saudi investor dusts off long-ignored Islamic treaty and uses it to arbitrate with Indonesia over banking dispute
  Sep 19, 2012
• Arbitrators reject Indonesia’s preliminary effort to dismiss ICSID claims; complex issues in bank expropriation dispute require more pleading
  Apr 10, 2012
• Arbitrators named in investment arbitration claims against Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Pakistan
  Sep 27, 2011