PCA Finds Jurisdiction Over Ukraine-Russia Vessel Detention Dispute

Mealey's (July 25, 2022, 10:24 AM EDT) -- THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Permanent Court of Arbitration tribunal on June 27 upheld in part and denied in part the Russian Federation’s objections to arbitral claims brought against it by Ukraine for the 2018 detention of three Ukrainian vessels and 24 servicemen, finding that it had jurisdiction over the dispute and that certain events after the detention of the vessels were not immune from a U.N. maritime law convention...