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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

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20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

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28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

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12/05/2016

Customary international law: front and centre, marginalised, or irrelevant?

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Yesterday Dr Kate Parlett gave a talk to the staff of the Legal Secretariat of ICSID at the World Bank in Washington DC. Kate presented on the role of customary international law in ICSID arbitration, in the light of recent decisions of ICSID tribunals indicating that self-standing claims based on customary law might be brought by investors under investment treaties and investment contracts.

 

The issues canvassed in Kate’s talk are addressed in a recent article by Kate, which examines the recent ICSID decisions on claims under customary international law. By reference to the decided cases, the article examines the extent to which claims under customary international law might fall within the scope of jurisdiction of an ICSID tribunal. Those claims might cover customary international law protections relating to foreign investment, but might also be expanded to cover claims under customary human rights law or environmental protection. Kate’s article is forthcoming in the ICSID Review (http://icsidreview.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/2/434.full.pdf+html) under the title: “Claims under customary international law in ICSID arbitration”.

 

Kate practices in public international law and investment arbitration. She frequently represents States and investors in investment treaty arbitrations, under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules, and has particular expertise in advising on issues of public international law arising in the context of investment disputes. 


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