{"id":1792,"date":"2013-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/2013\/11\/04\/canada-ratifying-world-banks-icsid-convention-is-terrific\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"canada-ratifying-world-banks-icsid-convention-is-terrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/2013\/11\/04\/canada-ratifying-world-banks-icsid-convention-is-terrific\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada ratifying World Bank\u2019s ICSID Convention is \u2018Terrific\u2019 According to Firm Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 1, 2013, Canada confirmed its ratification of the World Bank&rsquo;s ICSID Convention by depositing its &ldquo;Instrument of Ratification&rdquo; with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Barry Leon, Partner and Head of the firm&rsquo;s International Arbitration Group, tells the <em>Financial Post<\/em> this announcement is &ldquo;terrific news for Canada and Canadian companies&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>For Canadian investors, this now means they will have access to an &ldquo;impartial, less expensive and more effective dispute-resolution mechanism&rdquo; to resolve investment disputes with host states.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to read the article in its entirety, please <a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2013\/11\/02\/canada-raitifes-world-banks-icsid-convention\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 1, 2013, Canada confirmed its ratification of the World Bank&rsquo;s ICSID Convention by depositing its &ldquo;Instrument of Ratification&rdquo; with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Barry Leon, Partner and Head of the firm&rsquo;s International Arbitration Group, tells the Financial Post this announcement is &ldquo;terrific news for Canada and Canadian companies&rdquo;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_expertise_area":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-couverture-mediatique"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perlaw.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}