Bilateral investment treaty interpretation: An internationalist spirit tempered by context: Government of the Laos People’s Democratic Republic v Sanum Investments Ltd

• المؤلف الرئيسي: MOHAN, Mahdev
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• الموضوعات: Commercial Law
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2281; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4233/viewcontent/LGUPD__2013__SLWC_11_v1.0.pdf

This commentary discusses the first Singapore court decision to have interpreted a BIT to which Singapore is not a party. The case concerns a dispute between the Laos People’s Democratic Republic (“Laos”) and Sanum Investments Limited (“Sanum”), a company in corporated in Macau. The Court had to det...