Arbitration — North American Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 11 — UNCITRAL arbitration — Jurisdiction — Investment disputes — Definition — Whether measure relating to trade in goods capable of being measure relating to an investment — Procedural requirements for bringing claim — Waiver of right to institute or continue national proceedings — Whether going to jurisdiction
Arbitration — North American Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 11 — UNCITRAL arbitration — Procedure and evidence — Claim of Crown privilege — Whether available before UNCITRAL arbitral tribunal — Whether State required to identify documents and produce reasoned submissions regarding their confidentiality — Whether UNCITRAL Tribunal empowered to compel production of documents — Scope of solicitor-client privilege — Claim — Amendment to claim
Economics, trade and finance — North American Free Trade Agreement — Aims and objectives — Interpretation — Relationship with general international law — Requirement of national treatment — Minimum standard of treatment — Performance requirements
Expropriation — Definition — North American Free Trade Agreement, Article 1110 — Measures tantamount to expropriation — Meaning — Whether extending beyond concept of expropriation in general international law — Creeping expropriation
International tribunals — Arbitration tribunal — UNCITRAL — North American Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 11 — Jurisdiction and powers — Procedure and evidence
State responsibility — Treatment of aliens — Investor protection — North American Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 11 — National treatment — Meaning of “like circumstances” — Minimum standard of treatment — Fair and equitable treatment — Full protection and security — Use of terms in bilateral investment treaties — Expropriation
Treaties — Interpretation — Principles of interpretation — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969, Articles 31 to 33 — Application to North American Free Trade Agreement
