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Contracts should use the complete and proper corporate name. They should be signed as a corporate officer and not as an individual. Flaws in standing can defeat a lawsuit before it even gets started. Sharing is caring! Share Tweet LinkedIn. Contact Us. Ecuador has logged a request for the decision to be annulled. Now, in his most high-profile case yet, Parada is part of the team defending El Salvador as it tries to fend off a multimillion-dollar suit lodged by a multinational mining company after the tiny Central American country refused to allow it to dig for gold.
But, the company alleged that when valuable deposits of gold and silver were discovered, the government, for political reasons, withheld the permits it needed to begin digging.
Every year on 15 September, thousands of Salvadorans celebrate the date when much of Central America gained independence from Spain. Fireworks are set off and marching bands parade through villages across the country. Hundreds had gathered to protest against the mine. In the central square, colourful banners were strung up, calling on OceanaGold to drop its case against the country and leave the area. The date of the hearing was not a coincidence, Parada said. Most international investment treaties and free-trade deals grant foreign investors the right to activate this system, known as investor-state dispute settlement ISDS , if they want to challenge government decisions affecting their investments.
In Europe, this system has become a sticking point in negotiations over the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP deal proposed between the European Union and the US, which would massively extend its scope and power and make it harder to challenge in the future.
Both France and Germany have said that they want access to investor-state dispute settlement removed from the TTIP treaty currently under discussion. Investors have used this system not only to sue for compensation for alleged expropriation of land and factories, but also over a huge range of government measures, including environmental and social regulations, which they say infringe on their rights. The number of suits filed against countries at the ICSID is now around — and that figure is growing at an average rate of one case a week.
Sitting in a glass-walled meeting room in his offices, at the law firm Foley Hoag, he paused, searching for the right word to describe what has happened in his field. The quiet village of Moorburg in Germany lies just across the river from Hamburg. Past the 16th-century church and meadows rich with wildflowers, two huge chimneys spew a steady stream of thick, grey smoke into the sky. It is a prime example of how this powerful international legal system, built to protect foreign investors in developing countries, is now being used to challenge the actions of European governments as well.
But with the Vattenfall case, Germany found itself in the dock for the first time.
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