CRCICA mourns the loss of Professor Dr. Aktham El KHOLY, the leading arbitration specialist and former member of CRCICA Advisory Committee, who passed away on the 3rd February 2016 aged 87 years.
he late Prof. El Kholy was an attorney at law and legal Advisor admitted to the Supreme Court (Egyptian Court of Cassation) since 1975; Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law and Vice-Dean, Faculty of Law, Cairo University till 1979; Former Chief Legal Advisor at the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (Kuwait); Former Chief Legal Advisor of M.A. Kharafi Kuwait; Co-Arbitrator, Chairman, Attorney and Expert in international institutional and ad hoc arbitrations; Vice-President of the Egyptian Association of Francophone Jurists; Author several books, articles and papers in Arabic, English or French on civil and commercial laws of Egypt, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia; Awarded the State Prize for his book on commercial contracts, 1959.
