Last year, the Filipino heirs to the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu were awarded US$14.9 billion by a Paris arbitration court in a long-running dispute with Malaysia over a colonial-era land deal.

cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/26887

The Hague court of appeals on Tuesday said it did not recognise that there could be an arbitration award to be made as it dismissed the suit.

  • Rob@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can someone explain to me why these cases are being litigated in the Netherlands, France, and Luxemburg? I couldn’t find an explanation in the article I read on nos.nl.

  • elmicha@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    At the bottom of the article there is a link to this article, which has lots of details. From there:

    Under the 1958 New York Convention, an arbitration award issued in any state party to the treaty can generally be freely enforced in another contracting state. Both Malaysia and Spain are parties to the treaty.