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ICSID case ARB/12/14 (Annulment decision)

ICSID · Investment (ICSID and treaty) · International (investor-state) · December 6, 2016

Why it matters

Churchill Mining Plc and Planet Mining Pty Ltd, formerly ARB/12/14 v. Republic of Indonesia, an investment-treaty arbitration administered by ICSID (case no. ARB/12/14), in which a foreign investor brought claims against a state under an investment treaty. 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

Churchill Mining Plc and Planet Mining Pty Ltd, formerly ARB/12/14 v. Republic of Indonesia: an ICSID annulment decision (ARB/12/14). The tribunal's full reasoning is set out in the original.

The detail

Parties: Churchill Mining Plc and Planet Mining Pty Ltd, formerly ARB/12/14 v. Republic of Indonesia

Case number: ICSID Case No. ARB/12/14

Outcome: Annulment decision in case ARB/12/14. 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.

Read the full decision at ICSID case database

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