RE: Arbitration22 Nov 2025 10:06
Https://icsid.worldbank.org/cases/case-database/case-detail?CaseNo=ARB/24/22
Other than the very basic info available on the icsid website, I can't find any info or detail on the arbitration process. Anyone else?
The arbiters themselves look fine to me, good experience, including with other London listed natural resource company arbitrations like RKH and AST. The GOS and BKY appointees are senior lawyers/barristers, who are presumably well versed in the relevant treaty, law, processes and frameworks underlying this essentially legal dispute.
I emailed BKY for some more info, eg timeframes and what the procedural orders issued actually say and links, but as per usual I got no response. Maybe they've been reading my posts, and made the investor relations guy part time or redundant to preserve cash!
I'm holding, but it's burning a bit of a hole, having been in this share well over 10 years now.
A change of government at the next election could really shake this up.
Paul, my guess is that we'll get a decent award ("win"), but that enforcement of it will be difficult at best. It would be easier getting blood out of a stone. Imagine BKY trying to enforce it by impounding Spanish government assets, a nightmare. The best outcome might be a decent award a future nuclear-friendly government could point to as part of any decision/reasoning it makes to permit the mine.