ChBA Event - Wednesday, 8 July 2009

CHANCERY IN THE GULF
CPD: 1.5 hours (applied for)
Benchers’ Drawing Room, Lincoln’s Inn
5.30 - 7.00 pm

Panel: 
Mark Beer, Registrar of the Dubai International Finance Centre

David Allison, Counsel in the first trial to come before the DIFC Court, will examine the decisions delivered by the DIFC Court which illustrate the relevance of English principles of insolvency law and company law to litigation in the DIFC.

Michael Todd QC will speak to company law, again largely based on very familiar concepts to English lawyers

Andrew de La Rosa - The Trust in Gulf Jurisdictions: New Frontier or Mirage?  The trust is central to conventional collective investment schemes and private wealth management.  The appearance of trust legislation in the Shariah and civil law-based Gulf region raises a number of legal issues and a wider question of how suited this common law institution is to the region's cultural as well as legal framework. 

Rupert Reed will review the jurisdiction and procedure of the DIFC Courts through the relevant UAE, Dubai and DIFC statutes, and consider how issues arising from these statutes have been resolved by the DIFC Courts in civil and commercial matters.

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