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State of Libya v. Sorelec - Paris Court of Appeal, Judgment of 17 November 2020, N° 18/02568

Anna Cohen Zeller
Student at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

By a judgment of 17 November 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal set aside a consent award issued against the State of Libya. The Court found that the underlying settlement was tainted by corruption and thus violated international public policy. The judgment is part of a rich body of case law developed by the Paris Court of Appeal in recent years as a result of the proliferation of corruption cases, in which it has clarified the standard, burden and methods of proof.

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Oral Hearings via Video Conference - Short Term Emergency Solution or Permanent Alternative?

Rory Price, Student at the University of Glasgow

This year, humanity has faced one of its gravest challenges in over a century. The COVID-19 virus has wreaked havoc on society and forced us to reimagine the very fabric of our lives. With over a million recorded deaths and nearly 56 million cases detected worldwide, global leaders have been forced to make the most difficult of decisions in an attempt to combat this unpredictable global health crises.

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Enka v. Chubb – Brief Commentary

Erdem Küçüker, MCIArb

International arbitration cases often involve more than one legal system and set of rules. Throughout the course of the proceedings, the governing law of the main contract (“law governing the merits” or “lex causae”), the law of the seat of arbitration (“curial law” or “lex arbitri”), the law governing the arbitration agreement and, if any, the institutional rules, may all come into play.

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