05 May 2022
CIArb held its first official event in Pakistan on 10 March 2021 at Jinnah Auditorium, City Court in association with Karachi Bar Association. For a virtual audience, the session was also streamed online via Zoom. The session was moderated by Syed Mustafa Mahdi FCIArb and the main speakers were:
Another session regarding Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) was held in collaboration with Courting the Law and Qanoondan on why dispute resolution such as arbitration is important in the context of Pakistan. The discussion was held between:
Athina Papaefstratiou-Fouchard
She was elected Chair of the CIArb Young Members Group in April 2020 and is Counsel in Evershed Sutherland’s Litigation group. She specializes in international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and public international law. Her experience includes ad hoc as well as institutional arbitrations under the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, CRCICA and CCJA rules.
Mercy McBrayer
She is the Research and Academic Affairs Manager at CIArb and a US qualified international arbitration lawyer. She is a certified mediator with an LLM from QMUL (with distinction). She has specialist expertise in the application of arbitration to international environmental disputes.
Nasir Khan
He has been working on establishing the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Pakistan Branch as CIArb’s nominated attorney. He has been working on international projects all over the globe for global consultancy firm Currie & Brown as their Infrastructure Director. He is qualified as an engineer, lawyer, chartered quantity surveyor, chartered procurement professional, qualified mediator, adjudicator and arbitrator.
Taimur Malik
He is a partner at global law firm, Clyde & Co, and Founder of Courting the Law and various other access to justice and legal literacy projects. He became an Associate Member of CIArb in 2006 and has been associated with the arbitration world since then in different capacities.
18 May 2022
UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for ADR session – Mandatory MediationThe UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for Alternative Dispute Resolution (APPG for ADR) met on Tuesday 17 May in Portcullis House.
28 Apr 2022
Promoting alternative dispute resolution in ScotlandThe Chartered Institute of Arbitrators is working in partnership with the Law Society of Scotland to help promote the use of arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
13 Apr 2022
CIArb reaffirms its condemnation of the illegal invasion of UkraineCIArb continues to stand with all those who oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine and condemns the invasion in the strongest possible terms as a breach of international law.