Quevedo & Ponce Attorneys and Counsellors at Law

During May and June, María Cristina Ponce Villacís, member of our firm, attended the Human Rights Academy of Washington College of Law at the American University. During her stay she attended some panels and conferences given by judges of the International Court of Justice, International Penal Court, and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, by representatives of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, and by special reporters of the United Nations, among other personalities in the international area of human rights. Some of said speakers are also professors at the Academy.

In the arbitration case filed by Chevron Corporation and Texaco Petroleum Company against the Ecuadorian State for the violation of the Bilateral Investment Treatment subscribed between Ecuador and the United States of America, from April 20 through April 28, 2009 it took place the hearing on the merits in Washington, D.C.

The team of lawyers from Quevedo & Ponce that attended the hearing was formed by: Dr. Alejandro Ponce Martínez, Ana Belén Posso, and María Daniela Román.

Last March, Rafael Correa Delgado, President of the Republic, subscribed the Executive Decree No. 1614, published in March 27, 2009, in Official Gazette No. 558.

The above mentioned Executive Decree establishes the application of Decision 608 of the Andean Community Commission. Taking into account that the National Congress has not yet approved the Competence Law, this Decision will be the legal framework established in the meantime in order to regulate free competence, so as to avoid prejudicial or counter-productive behavior of economic operators against it.

En el vespertino Últimas Noticias de Quito, del día 25 de junio de 2009, Jorge Ribadeneira publicó un reportaje anecdótico sobre el exilio español en Quito.
Se considera emblemático de este tema al Ilustre intelectual español Don Antonio Jaén Morente, abuelo materno del Dr. Manuel García – Jaén , actual abogado del Estudio Quevedo & Ponce.