The decision of the State Council avoided the worst
Article from: TDM 1 (2005), in Case Comments & Awards
Introduction
The decision taken by the Lebanese State Council (Conseil d'Etat) and dated 17 July 2001 regarding the status of the two mobile telephone companies, Cellis and Libancell, was supported by several lawyers who saw them as being the only possible decision in compliance with the Lebanese constitution and laws, as well as French administrative jurisprudence; however, the decision was opposed by others who saw the decision as curbing the development of foreign investment in Lebanon. Since the beginning of the era of reconstruction at the end of the war in 1990, Lebanon ...