Union of India vs.vodafone Group Plc United Kingdom & Anr

Decided On : May-07-2018

Court : Delhi

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ORG: UNION OF INDIA, VODAFONE GROUP PLC, UNITED KINGDOM & ANR, Amicus Curiae, Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement, National Courts, the Plaintiff-Union of India against, Vodafone Group Plc, Vodafone Consolidated Holdings Ltd, Plaintiff, India UK Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement, the Notice of Arbitration, Defendants, Plaintiff, Court, SALVE, Defendants, Court, Indian Courts, Court, the National Courts of India, Treaty, the Union of India, the Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement, Treaty, Northern Ireland & the Union of India, the National Courts, Courts, Bilateral Investment Treaties, the Divisional Court of the Queen's, The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, English Courts, National Courts, the Tin Council Case, Mincing Lane) Ltd., Department of Trade & Industry & Ors, the Courts of the United Kingdom, SGS Société Générale de Surveillance S.A., the Arbitral Tribunal, the Supreme Court Judgment, Tribunal, SGS, the ICSID Convention, the Bilateral Investment Treaty, BIT, the ICSID Convention, Tribunal, State, Tribunal, Tribunal, the Government of Pakistan, the Supreme Court, the Government of Pakistan, the Court of the current standing, Tribunal, The Government of Pakistan, the Indian National Courts, Treaty, the Union of India, Defendants, State, State, State, National Courts, Courts, Treaty, ARSIWA, ARSIWA, State, State, State, State, State, the central Government, Contracting Party, the Plaintiff-Union of India, State, a National Court, BIPA, the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, the Plaintiff-Union of India's, Orascom, Tribunal, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the International Court of Justice, ICJ, ICJ, the Plaintiff-Union of India, ICJ, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Plaintiff-Union of India, ICJ, the Plaintiff-Union of India, Court, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Plaintiff-Union of India, BIPA, Defendants, the Plaintiff-Union of India, Claimants, the United Kingdom Tribunal, PLAINTIFF-UNION OF INDIA21 Per, Plaintiff-Union of India, the India-, Defendants, Union of India, Vodafone International Holdings B.V., Plama Consortium Limited, Phoenix Action, Ltd., Union of India, Union of India, Union of India, Union of India, Union of India, Plaintiff-Union of India, the Vodafone Group, The Paris Court of Appeal, Arbitration Academy, Orascom, Plaintiff-Union of India, Law, Sciences Po Law School, Yale Law School, the India-Netherlands BIPA, Vodafone, Plaintiff-Union of India, Defendants, Union of India, Plaintiff-Union of India, Court, Netherlands BIPA, Plaintiff-Union of India, Union of India, Union of India, Defendants, Court, Plaintiff-Union of India, Court, Calcutta High Court, The Board of Trustees of the Port of Kolkata, Louis Dreyfus Armatures SAS & Ors, Plaintiff-Union of India, a National Court, the Supreme Court, World Sport Group, MSM Satellite, follows:-""22, the Bombay High Court, CPC, CPC, CPC, Court, Court, the Supreme Court, Controls India Private Limited Vs, Klockner and Co., the Arbitral Tribunal, the Arbitral Tribunal, Plaintiff-Union of India, Court, Tarapore & Company & Another, National Gas Commission Vs, Western Company of North America, Modi Entertainment Network & Another Vs, W.S.G. Cricket Pte Ltd., Court, CPC, the Supreme Court, Firm Hansraj Nathuram, Court, Board, Legislature, Bankura Court, Plaintiff-Union of India, Defendants, Court, Vodafone, Vodafone, State, Court, Plaintiff-Union of India, the Union of India, Amicus Curiae, Amicus Curiae, Carlill, the Caribbean Court of Justice, Appellate Jurisdiction, British Caribbean Bank Limited, BCB, the State party, State, Learned Amicus Curiae, the Caribbean Court, British Caribbean Bank Limited, Plaintiff-Union of India, Defendants, Union of India's, Tribunal, Court, the Notice of Arbitration, Defendants, Claimants, Claimants, Claimants, Tribunal, the Netherlands- India Treaty, India Treaty, Learned Amicus Curiae, Defendants, Vodafone, Defendants, Plaintiff-Union, Amicus Curiae, BIPA, BIPA, International Arbitration, The Coming of New Age for Asia, Congress, State, State, State, RESPONSE OF UNION OF INDIA, Amicus Curiae, Plaintiff-Union of India, Defendants, Union of India, BIPA, Vodafone, Amicus Curiae's, British Caribbean Bank Limited, the National Courts under Municipal Laws, British Caribbean Bank Limited, Vodafone, the India-, Plaintiff-Union of India, Union of India, the Plaintiff-Union of India, Court, Vodafone, Vodafone, CPC, an Indian Court, the Supreme Court, The Andhra Bank Ltd., R. Srinivasan & Others, Buckley, the Courts of England, Re Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Co. Ltd., ICJ Rep 4, ICJ Rep, the Courts of India, State, State, a National Court, Amicus Curiae, Courts, the Supreme Court of India, Civil Appeal, the Income Tax Department, The Supreme Court, Vodafone, The Apex Court, Rupees Twelve Thousand Crores, Vodafone, Parliament, Union of India, the Government of India, BIT, BIT, the Government of India, BIT, Plaintiff, the Plaintiff- Union of India, Defendants, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Appointing Authority, ICJ, The Plaintiff-Union of India, Union of India's, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Appointing Authority, ICJ, the Vodafone Group, The Plaintiff-Union of India, stated:"The Vodafone Group, the Dutch Arbitration, VG, VCHL, UK Arbitration, the Dutch Arbitration, Union of India's, the India- Netherlands BIPA, the Appointing Authority, Tribunal, Plaintiff-Union of India, ICJ, the Vodafone Group, ICJ, the India- Netherlands BIPA, Defendants, Claimants, ICJ, the Plaintiff-Union of India, ICJ, ICJ, Plaintiff-Union of India, ICJ, Claimants, BIT, Claimants, ICJ, Tribunal, Tribunal, Tribunal, the Presiding Arbitrator, Netherlands BIPA, ICJ, Tribunal, the Plaintiff-Union of India's, ICJ, the Plaintiff-Union of India, ICJ, the Plaintiff-Union of India, Civil Suit, the Notice of Arbitration, ICJ, Court, the Notice of Arbitration, the India- Netherlands BIPA Tribunal, the Plaintiff-Union of India, Respondent‘s Application, Vodafone, Tribunal, Arbitration, Arbitration, ICJ, Claimants, the High Court, Appointing Authority, Claimants, Vodafone Group Plc, Vodafone Consolidated Holdings Limited, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the India-United Kingdom BIPA Arbitration, Defendants, Court, Court, Tribunal, the Plaintiff-Union of India, Court, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the Supreme Court, the Apex Court, Special Leave Petition, the Plaintiff-Union of India, the High Court, Suit, the High Court, the High Court, Tribunal, Suit, Court, the Plaintiff-Union of India, Claimants, the United Kingdom Tribunal, the Plaintiff-Union of India, Court, BIT, Bilateral are Investment Treaty Arbitrations, kompetenz–kompetenz, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, International Arbitration, MFN, BIT, BIT, the Czech Government's, Media Council, the New York Convention, the Plaintiff-Union of India, CPC, Court, Court, CPC, Court, Plaintiff, Plaintiff, Plaintiff, Plaintiff, the Supreme Court, State, Calder, State, the National Enquirer, Court, the Indian Supreme Court, State, Lords, House, Story's Conflict of Laws, ―We, State, Court, State, Court, Court, the Privy Council, Wingh on & Co...., Defendants, Vodafone India Limited, Vodafone India Limited, Defendants, Defendants, Court, Court, Court, inter alia, Pankaj Aluminium Industries Pvt, M/s. Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd., DHN Food Distributors Ltd., DHN Food Distributors Ltd., the House of Lords, Harold Holdworth & Co., Wakefield) Ltd. v., DHN, DHN, Court, Modi Entertainment Network, the Supreme Court, THE BIT ARBITRATION, PLAINTIFF, the Civil Courts, a Civil Court, Dhulabhai Vs, the Indian Parliament, International Treaties, Parliament, BIPA Agreements, National Courts.78, National Courts, Union of India's, the ICSID Convention, Union of India, the ICSID Convention, National Courts, Court, British Caribbean Bank Limited, Inter-State, State, State, State, State, State, the Government of the Republic of India, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Contracting Party, CS(OS, the Conciliation Rules, the United Nations Commission on, the Arbitration Rules, the United Nations Commission on, Arbitral Tribunal, the International Court of Justice, Agreement, Contracting Party, Contracting Party, Court, State, BIPA Arbitration, State, the Defendants, Occidental Exploration and Production Company, Occidental, Occidental, The Court of Appeal, the Tin Council Case, Light and Power Co. Ltd., Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Société Générale de Surveillance SA v Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Court, State, Court, an Investment Treaty Tribunal, the National Court

PERSON: Sanjay Jain, Sanjeev Narula, Abhishek Ghai, Adrija Thakur, Ashutosh Kumar, Rhea Verma, Anumita Chandra, Harish Salve, Anuradha Dutt, Fereshte D. Sethna, Ekta Kapil, Gayatri Goswami, Harrish Fazili, S Ghosh, Kunal Dutt, Anirudh Bakhru, Sumeet Kachwaha, MANMOHAN JUDGMENT MANMOHAN, Defendant Nos, Defendant Nos, and/or direction(s, Harish Salve, J.H. Rayner, inter se, Salve, Articles 3 and 4 of, Salve, kompetenz kompetenz, Salve, r.l. v. People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Award, Award, Salve, Court, Salve, SANJAY JAIN, Sanjay Jain, Inceysa Vallisoletana, IOAN Micula v. Romania, Sanjay Jain, Emmanuel, Sanjay Jain, Sanjay Jain, Venugopal, Subramanium, Sanjay Jain, kompetenz kompetenz, Orissa, Sanjay Jain, V.O. Tractoroexport, Moscow Vs, Sanjay Jain, Sanjay Jain, Sanjay Jain, Sanjay Jain, Sumeet Kachwaha, Sumeet Kachwaha, Sumeet Kachwaha, Justice, Sundaresh Menon, mechanism.20, Sanjay Jain, Sanjay Jain, Sanjay Jain, Sanjay Jain, Harish Salve, Salve, Emanuel v. Symon, LaGrand, v Hammer, Harish Salve, Ronny Abraham, David Caron, Yves Fortier, xvii, xxiv, xxix, xxxiv, Sundaresh Menon, JURISDICTION, A. Murali Krishna Reddy & Anr, John South Vs, Shirley Jones, M. Hidayatullah, Rukn-ul-Mulk Syed Abdul Wajid, Balckburn, J., Imrie, Story, Story, Traite, Blackburn, J., J.C. Shah, S.K. Das, ―subsidiaries‖, Others, London Borough, Gower, Aikens, Salve, LaGrand, v Hammer

CARDINAL: 08, 15.06.2015, 24.01.2017, 1, 2, 15.06.2015, 24.01.2017, 1, 2, 15.06.2015, two, two, 3, 8, 2, one, 4, 81, 9, 81, 10, 27, 26, 6, one, two, 3, 4, 7, 81, 14, one, 8, 81 2, 16, 9, one, two, 81, 26, 31(1, 23, 81, two, 12, more than one, 26, 1, 13, 81, 14, 81, two, two, two, two, 81, two, 17695.32, 11, 23, 33, 1 SCC641has, 17, 81, 8, 121, 122, 34, 3, 1, 4, 18, 81, 1, one, 36, 19, 81, 2017.41, 20, 81, 2013, CCJ4(AJ, 44, 81, two, 46, 22, three, two, 23, 81, 22, 81, 25, 81, one, 26, 81, 2012.51, 27, 81, one, 28, 81, 3, five, 1, five, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 29, 9, 3, treaty.60, 30, 81, 12,000, 2,500, two, 31, 81, 32, 81, two, 34, 81, one, two, 35, 81, two, 81, 37, 81, 60, 38, 39, two, 40, 81, two, 41, 81, 42, 81, 385, 2,926, 608, ten, 2000.63, 43, 81, more than 30, 81, 45, 81, 65, more than one, more than one, 67, 46, 81, 40, 42, 68, 465, 2d, 47, 81, 69, 3, two, 81, 586, 618, 49, 71, 169 million, 19,471, 50, 81, 212, 3, one, three, three, 51, 81 one, 2, one, 81, 3, About 161, 153, one, 53, 81, 80, two, 9, 10, one, 1, 81, 2, 3, three, two, one, 2, 1, 55, 81, 2, 3, one, two, two, two, 83, 68, 56, 81, 2

DATE: March, 2018 Date, May, 2018, recent years, 24.01.2017, 24.01.2017, 81 3, 09th January, 2018, 81 7, 2002, 1990, 16 October 2002, July 3, 2002, 81 12, 1976, 31st May 2017, 22nd August 2017, 07th August 2017, 31 August 2017, August 2017, 81 18, 01st September, 2017, 22nd August, 2017, 07th September, 2017, April 2012, 1969, June 2015, January 2017, 22nd December, 2017, 81, 2014, 2014, 81, 2013, 1996, 1908, 1963, 1963, 1969, 1987, 2003, 1971, 01st August, 2017, 07th August, August, 2017, 11th August, 2017, 16th August, 1891-94, centuries, January 2017, 81 47, 17th May, 2017,, 17th June, 2017, 25th July, 2017, 32, January, 2017, May, 17th May, 2017,, 17th June, 2017, 25th June, 2017, 1962, 1908, 81 57, 1970, 44, 1999, 1981, 20th January, 2012, November, 2010, two months, 2012, Section 9(1)(i, 17th April, 2012, 20th February, 2014, 13th March, 2014, 17th April, 2014, 15th June, 2015, 24th January, 2017, 12th April, 2017, 17th April, 2017, 12th May, 2017, 17th May, 2017, 12th May, 2017, 08th June, 2017, 17th June, 2017, 27th June, 2017, 21st July, 2017, 25th July, 2017, 26th July, 2017, August 4, 2017, 07th August, 2017, 12th August, 2017, 07th August, 2017, August, 2017, 11th August, 2017, 31st August, 2017, 11th August, 2017, 24th January, 2017, 2nd August, 2017, 22nd August, 2017, 24th January, 2017, Later that day, 22nd August, 2017, 81, 01st September, 2017, 25 August, 2017, Thursday 7 September, 2017, 07th September, 2017, 27th September, 2017, 26th October, 2017, 26th October, 2017, 14th December, 2017, 26.10.2017, 8th, 9th and 10th of January, 2018, 26.10.2017, 10.01.2018, 09th January, 2018, 09th January, 2018, 08th March, 2018, 22nd August, 2017, the end of the 1980s, the end of 2014, the end of 2014, ten years earlier, 2001, 2004, the 1990s, 2006, 2001, 16, 33, 2009, Del 3780, 14 79, 1963, 1870, 1766, 81 70, 2007, 2011 IV AD, 1976, 74, 1968, the five decades old, 1965, a period of, six months, 1976, two months, the period of, six months, six months, two months, two months, 2005, 1116, 01st July, 2004, 29 April, 2005, 2005, 2005

GPE: CS(OS, India, CS(OS, MR, Great Britain, CS(OS, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom, I.T.C., CS(OS, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Pakistan, ICSID, CS(OS, CS(OS, CS(OS, the United Kingdom, CS(OS, India, CS(OS, CS(OS, MR, India, S.L., El Salvador, The Czech Republic, CS(OS, United Kingdom BIPA, India, UK, Netherlands, India, Paris, France, CS(OS, India, India, India, United Kingdom BIPA, CS(OS, India, India, CS(OS, Singapore, Pte Limited, Singapore, Singapore, India, Singapore, India, CS(OS, India, Singapore, Chloro, France, CS(OS, India, CS(OS, India, India, CS(OS, ER, CS(OS, India, India, India, India, CS(OS, States, United States of America, States, CS(OS, the United States, CS(OS, States, CS(OS, India, CS(OS, India, United Kingdom BIPA, CS(OS, India, India, India, India, India, Buckley, L.J., CS(OS, Belgium, Spain, Germany, United States, the Republic of India, the Republic of India, CS(OS, p.a., CS(OS, India, India, India, India, India, The Netherlands, Netherlands, CS(OS, CS(OS, UK, UK, United Kingdom BIPA, India, India, India, India, CS(OS, India, India, CS(OS, India, India, CS(OS, India, India, India, UK, UK, the Republic of India, CS(OS, Delhi, the Republic of India, the Republic of India, CS(OS, xxvii, Delhi, CS(OS, India, CS(OS, India, CS(OS, States, CS(OS, States, Australia, Uruguay, India, Singapore, India, Australia, India, Kuwait, India, enterprise.15, States, Argentina, Argentina, CS(OS, the Czech Republic Similarly, Sweden, Netherlands, States, States, CS(OS, or"20, CS(OS, United States, S.Ct, California, California, CS(OS, California, California, Florida, Florida, California, Viswanathan, CS(OS, Boullenois, Ingenohl, CS(OS, India, India, India, India, India, India, Delhi, CS(OS, India, India, CS(OS, M.P., India, ICSID, CS(OS, the United Kingdom, the Indian State, Northern Ireland, CS(OS, the United Kingdom, Republic of Ecuador v Occidental Exploration, the Republic of Ecuador, England, Wales, the Republic of Ecuador, the United States of America, CS(OS, the Republic of Ecuador, Belgium, Spain, Germany, United States, ICSID

ORDINAL: First, second, 11th, second, second, second, second, third, first, first, first, 11th, first, second, first, Fourth, first, second, 26th, first, second, second, second, second, second, second, second, first, third, first, secondly, third, third, third

PRODUCT: Articles 26, Treaty Obligations, KB302

EVENT: the Vienna Convention, the Vienna Convention, the 2015 Session, the (ii

FAC: the India-Netherlands BIPA Tribunal, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA Arbitration, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, Lalji CS(OS, Private International Law, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA Arbitration, the India-Netherlands BIPA Arbitration, the India-UK BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA, the India-Netherlands BIPA Tribunal, the India-Netherlands BIPA Tribunal, Request, the India-Netherlands BIPA Tribunal, the India-Netherlands BIPA, Tower Hamlets, International Centre for Settlement of Investment, the India-United Kingdom BIPA, the India-United Kingdom BIPA

NORP: Indian, Indian, Indian, Indian, Indian, Indian, Indian, Indian, Indian, Appointing, Australian, Indian, Dutch, American, Dutch, R., Castrique, English, Indian, Indian, Indian, Indian, Indian, Californian, English

WORK_OF_ART: Abuse of Process in International Arbitration, Raja and Sons Vs, The 2012 Amendment, The Claimants, Convention on the Settlement of Investment

LOC: Respondent, Europe, Europe, Single, Single Judge, Single, Single, Single, Asia

MONEY: $17 billion, US$17 billion, xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx

LANGUAGE: English, English