UK Supreme Court affirms no state immunity from ICSID awards

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The UK’s Supreme Court has confirmed that Spain and Zimbabwe cannot invoke state immunity to oppose the enforcement of ICSID awards, saying that their accession to the ICSID Convention amounted to submission to the English courts’ jurisdiction. 

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