This protection was initially established in a clause of the agreement subscribed between Great Britain and Colombia in 1994 which was later overruled by the Constitutional Court as unconstitutional. The Court estimated that it was violatory of the equal rights provision taking into account that article 58 of the National Constitution establishes the possibility of administrative expropriation without right of indemnification, when the social interest and the public use requires it.
Prepared by Jaime Robledo from Gomez Pinzon & Asociados, Bogota , Colombia.
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