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The Loewen Group Inc. and Raymond L. Loewen v. United States of America

NAFTA Arbitration Tribunal.  05 January 2001 ; 26 June 2003 ; 13 September 2004 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Abstract

Claims — Investor claims under North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”) — Nationality — Whether continuous nationality of claimant required — Language of NAFTA not dispositive — Issue to be decided in accordance with applicable rules of international law — Continuous nationality to date of award required

Economics, trade and finance — Foreign investment — Standards of treatment — International law minimum standard — Fair and equitable treatment — NAFTA Article 1105 — Whether differing from standards of international law — Whether judicial acts capable of breaching standard — Conduct of trial — Whether bad faith required — Requirement of finality — Whether implying duty to exhaust domestic remedies

Claims — Local remedies rule — Nature and application — Whether applicable to claims under NAFTA Chapter 11 — Effective and available remedies

Economics, trade and finance — Foreign investment — NAFTA Article 1101 — Measures adopted or maintained by a Party — Whether State conduct inducing private settlement agreement included — Article 1105 — Meaning of obligations to provide “fair and equitable treatment” and “full protection and security” — Whether free-standing obligations or obligations under customary international law — Whether bad faith and malicious intention required — Whether conduct of trial was so flawed that it constituted a manifest injustice and breach of minimum standards prescribed in NAFTA and international law — Gross failure of trial judge to afford due process breached minimum standards — NAFTA Article 1102 — Discrimination against foreign investors — Example of “most favourable treatment accorded in like circumstances” required — No example available to Tribunal — Breach not demonstrated

Jurisdiction — Failure to exhaust domestic remedies — Distinguished from waiver of domestic proceedings — Requirement to exhaust local remedies applicable to NAFTA — Remedies available to claimants not exhausted

Expropriation — NAFTA Article 1110 — Judicial act — Claimant required to establish denial of justice under NAFTA Article 1105 — Claimant unable to establish breach of Article 1105

Arbitration — Jurisdiction of Tribunal — Procedure — Reconsideration of award — Appointment of arbitrators

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© Cambridge University Press 2007

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