A particular worry for lawyers is that our courts, too, could be overruled. The foreign investment tribunals have decided that courts are part of a countrys government (riding roughshod over any doctrine of the separation of powers) and that they, too, must comply. Even if our courts had upheld the validity of a law properly passed by Parliament, that decision could be challenged by a foreign corporation alleging it breached their rights under the TPP. Even a jury decision in private litigation could be challenged and lead to the Government paying millions in compensation. In a case brought by Chevron, a tribunal ordered the Ecuador Government, in defiance of its constitution, not to enforce a ruling by Ecuadors Appeal Court that Chevron must pay $18 billion to clean up toxic waste in the Amazon Basin. - Bryan Gould Herald
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 10:24:40 +0000
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