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Profiles: Tribunal judges in Dubai
The tribunal is initially composed of three senior international judges from the Dubai International Finance Centre Courts including Sir Anthony Evans, Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts, Michael Hwang, SC, Deputy Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts and Justice Sir John Murray Chadwick, Judge of the DIFC Courts. A brief profile of the tribunal judges:
- Gulf News
- Published: 19:00 December 14, 2009
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Sir Anthony Evans, Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts
Sir Anthony Evans was appointed Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts in April 2005. He was a High Court Judge in England and Wales from 1984 until 1992 and a Lord Justice of Appeal (a member of the Court of Appeal) from 1992 until his retirement in 2000. Before being appointed as Judge, Sir Anthony practised as a Barrister, specialising in commercial cases. He became Queen’s Counsel in 1971 and a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1972. As a High Court Judge, he sat regularly in the Commercial Court, and from 1990 until 1992 he was Judge in Charge of the Commercial list. Since 2000, he has continued to sit from time to time in the Court of Appeal and as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is also a member of the Court of Appeal in Bermuda. Sir Anthony has extensive recent experience as an arbitrator, with particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration.
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Judge Michael Hwang, SC, Deputy Chief Justice
Justice Michael Hwang, SC, was appointed as the Deputy Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts in April 2005. From 1972 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 2002, he was a partner in Allen and Gledhill, the largest law firm in Singapore and served as the Head of its Litigation and Arbitration Department for 10 years. In 1991, he was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore (a full time post equivalent to the office of an acting High Court Judge) for a fixed term contract, which expired at the end of 1992. During his term, he dealt with a full caseload of civil litigation and 15 of his reasoned judgments are reported in the Singapore Law Reports. He returned to private practice at the beginning of 1993 and since 2003 has practised as an independent Barrister and Arbitrator. In 1997, he was appointed as one of the first 12 Senior Counsel (SC) of the Supreme Court of Singapore (a status equivalent to that of Queen's Counsel in England). In 1999, he was elected a Member of the American Law Institute and also served as a Visiting Professor to the National University of Singapore teaching advocacy and commercial arbitration. Between 2000 and 2003, he served as a Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) based in Geneva, a body set up under the Security Council to assess claims against Iraq arising from the Gulf War. He is a Vice Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), a Vice President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, a member of the London Court of International Arbitration and a member of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport.
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Justice Sir John Murray Chadwick, Judge of the DIFC Courts
Justice Sir John Chadwick was appointed as a Judge of the DIFC Courts in January 2008, having served for 10 years until 2007 as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. He had previously held senior judicial appointments as a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales (Chancery Division), and a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey. Justice Sir John Chadwick was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1966. He was standing counsel to the UK Department of Trade and Industry from 1974 until 1980, when he was appointed Queen's Counsel. In private practice he undertook both litigation and advisory work; principally in property, company, insolvency, banking and insurance matters. His experience includes litigation in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Bermuda.
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