Award

ICSID case ARB/00/7 (Award)

ICSID · Investment (ICSID and treaty) · International (investor-state) · 18 April 2003

Why it matters

World Duty Free Company Limited v. Republic of Kenya, an investment-treaty arbitration administered by ICSID (case no. ARB/00/7), in which a foreign investor brought claims against a state under an investment treaty. In the outcome, Award rendered on October 4, 2006. For a student, it is a worked example of investor-state dispute settlement: how an ICSID tribunal weighs a state's right to regulate against the treaty protections owed to foreign investors.

Summary

World Duty Free Company Limited v. Republic of Kenya: an ICSID award (ARB/00/7). In the outcome, Award rendered on October 4, 2006. The tribunal's full reasoning is set out in the original.

The detail

Parties: World Duty Free Company Limited v. Republic of Kenya

Case number: ICSID Case No. ARB/00/7

Outcome: Award in case ARB/00/7. See the original for the disposition and any quantum.

Applicable law: ICSID Convention and Arbitration Rules; the applicable investment treaty.

Issues in play: A foreign investor's treaty protections against a sovereign state's right to regulate.

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