Following the Arab Spring, there has been a hiatus in Egypt regarding the conclusion of bilateral investment treaties ("BITs"), except for the 2014 Mauritius BIT. Since then, Egypt has been hit with…
The latest 2024 arbitration rules of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (“CRCICA”) have been in force since 15 January 2024 (“2024 CRCICA Rules”). As discussed in a…
On 8 March 2024, the Egypt Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) organised, as part of its “Wednesday One” panel discussions, a conference hosted by the Cairo Regional Centre for…
The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (“CRCICA”) issued its latest set of Arbitration Rules 2024 (“2024 Rules”), which enter into force from 15 January 2024. The 2024…
On 6 January 2021, the Egyptian Government introduced a draft law for parliament’s approval, seeking to expand the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court’s (“ESCC”) jurisdiction to scrutinize…
The grounding of the container carrier “EVER GIVEN” in the Suez Canal in March 2021 has been dubbed by some as “shipping’s 15 minutes of fame”. This post hitches its star to that wagon and considers…
Egypt has been trying to control the number of investor-state arbitration disputes which has been steeply increasing since 2011 and the Arab Spring movement (see past discussion on the Blog here). To…
On 27 October 2020, the Egyptian Court of Cassation (“Court”) rendered a ground-breaking judgment that is demonstrative of the Court’s appreciation of ongoing global developments in the field of…
Egypt recently set out a legal framework for the protection and regulation of personal data. The legislation was brought about to regulate the protection of personal data which is stored and…
The motive for writing this blog post was conceived during my work as a member of the Technical Secretariat for the Ministerial Committee for Settlement of Investment Contracts Disputes, when I…
