@article{2016:lokema:la_protect,
title = {La protection internationale des investissements en République démocratique du Congo à l’aune de l’affaire Patrick Mitchell devant le Centre International pour le Règlement des Différends relatifs aux Investissements (CIRDI)},
year = {2016},
note = {In « La protection internationale des investissements en République
démocratique du Congo à l’aune de l’affaire Patrick Mitchell
devant le Centre international pour le Règle- ment des Différends
relatifs aux Investissements » (CIRDI) (International protection of 
investments in Democratic Republic of Congo on the basis of Patrick
Mitchell case before the Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
(ICSID), the author mainly analyses Patrick Mitchell case for
supporting the existence in Democratic Republic of Congo of effective
international judiciary ways which assure investments protection. The
author specifies that the weakness of Congolese judiciary system,
undermined by corruption, by judges’bias and by the dysfunction of
judiciary apparatus, must not and cannot constitute a restraint to
for- eign private investments. The protection of these investments is
obtained in international level, beyond the exis- tence of cassation
procedure before the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (Abidjan,
Ivory Coast) in the framework of Harmonization of Business Law in
Africa (Ohada), but especially by the International Centre for
Settlement of Investment Disputes, without omit- ting the fact that
International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands) can also
provide judiciary protection said through diplomatic protection
mechanism. Patrick Mitchell case fixes attention due to his remarkable
complexity because of im- plementation of procedure three important
steps before an ICSID Tribunal going from 9 February 2004 Award to the
annulment of that Award, on the 1st November 2006 by Ad hoc Committee
through the Award enforcement suspension on the 30 November 2004. This
case allows to realize the reality of investments protection in a
double aspect which plays in the direction of investor’ favor or in
the direction of host state’ benefit. So, it pleads for mutual
confidence in ICSID arbitration favor.},
journal = {KAS African Law Study Library},
pages = {98--123},
author = {LOKEMA, Guy-Prosper DJUMA BILALI},
volume = {3},
number = {1}
}