{"id":457981,"date":"2026-03-05T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/457981\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:34:09","slug":"uk-supreme-court-affirms-no-state-immunity-from-icsid-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/457981\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Supreme Court affirms no state immunity from ICSID awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ewogICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAiYnVja2V0IjogImZpbGVzLmxici5jbG91ZCIsCiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg.jpeg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" width=\"945\" height=\"526\" alt=\"UK Supreme Court affirms no state immunity from ICSID awards\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                        (Credit: Shutterstock\/Victor Moussa)<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s 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\u2019 jurisdiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"login-title\">To read more<\/p>\n<p>        Subscribe to Global Arbitration Review<\/p>\n<p>                    Register for limited access<\/p>\n<p>Register for free to receive GAR\u2019s daily briefing and access to GAR 100.<\/p>\n<p>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/globalarbitrationreview.com\/account\/register\" class=\"btn btn-lg mb-xs-4 mb-md-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register now<\/a><br \/>\n                            Subscribe to unlock unlimited access<\/p>\n<p>Get news, unique commentary, expert analysis and essential resources from the Global Arbitration Review experts.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/globalarbitrationreview.com\/info\/subscribe\" class=\"btn btn-lg mb-xs-4 mb-md-0 mb-lg-5 mb-xl-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Already have access? Login below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit: Shutterstock\/Victor Moussa) The UK\u2019s Supreme Court has confirmed that Spain and Zimbabwe cannot invoke state immunity to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-457981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}