IBA Arb40 Toolkit for Award Writing Training Program, 11 December 2017
11 Dec 2017
On 11 December 2017, CRCICA hosted the IBA Arb40 Toolkit for Award Writing Training Program which offered practical guidance and tips for writing a reasoned and enforceable award. The Program was presented by experienced instructors introducing four topics: Formal and Procedural Requirements of Arbitral Awards, Practical Considerations for Drafting an Award, Content of the Award, and Tips and Techniques for Drafting. A Practical Group Exercise followed where the participants were tasked with identifying certain flaws in the award and offering corrective suggestions. The training was concluded by Qs & As where Mr. Michael E. Schneider, Founding Partner, LALIVE, Geneva was the Guest Speaker.
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Young ICCA Workshop, 11 December 2017
11 Dec 2017
On 11 December 2017, CRCICA hosted a Young ICCA Workshop on: International Arbitration: Procedural Tactics and Strategies. The Workshop included two panels: 1- Tactical considerations for drafting written submissions. 2- Procedural applications and other strategic decisions. The keynote address on Procedural Tactics and Strategies was presented by Mr. Michael E. Schneider, Founding Partner, LALIVE, Geneva. Participants were young lawyers representing Egyptian law firms, universities, and Egyptian State Lawsuits Authority (ESLA).
Young ICCA Workshop Agenda
CRCICA/ABA Distinguished Lawyers Continuing Legal Education Program, 15 October – 8 November 2017
15 Oct 2017
Basic Legal Skills Course
CRCICA held the second Arabic Basic Legal Skills Course under the CRCICA/ABA Distinguished Lawyers CLE Program functioning since October 2016. The Program is a continuation of the ABA ROLI’s CLE scheme in Egypt which, ran under the US AID funds, from 2009 until September 2016. As of October 2016, ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ROLI) and CRCICA started a new partnership to deliver self-funded CLE trainings for young lawyers in Egypt under the co-administration of both Institutions.
The Basic Legal Skills Course is one of the most important component of the Program, featuring 7 training modules, each focuses on one basic legal skill; client interviewing, legal analysis, legal writing, negotiation, contract drafting, oral advocacy, and arbitration. At the end of the course, trainees participated at a moot arbitration.
Held from 15 October till 8 November 2017, the course was delivered by seven qualified trainers all have passed the ABA’s Training of Trainers Course. Nine volunteering arbitrators ran the Arbitration Moot concluding the Course. Attendees were a mixture of junior practicing lawyers, legal interns, and fresh graduates.
It is worth noting that CRCICA exclusively developed a detailed course administration manual with comprehensive guiding documents, evaluation forms, and systematic guiding instructions to insure the smooth administration of the course in all its stages and to constantly increase its learning outcomes.
Managing Delay Damages in Construction Contracts Seminar, 11 October 2017
11 Oct 2017
On 11 October 2017, the Cairo Branch of the CIArb, jointly with CRCICA, organized a Training Course on Managing Delay Damages in Construction Contracts. The Course presented a thorough understanding of construction delay damages, as the source of frequent claims and disputes, under both the common law and civil law systems in order to properly manage the application of the delay damages in construction contracts. The agenda included a combination of lectures, case studies and Qs&As. Course tutors were Dr. Salwa Fawzy, Contracts Associate Director at Dar Al Mimar Group, Mountain View and Dr. Tarek Hamed Founder and Managing Director of DAR for Engineering Contracts. The participation profile of this Course reflected nearly all professional segments involved in the construction industry including developers, contractors, consulting engineers/contract managers, construction consultancy firms and lawyers. Petroleum companies were also well represented.
The Sixth Annual Training Course on “Comparative Commercial Arbitration, Theory and Practice”
17 Sep 2017
(equivalent to Module 2: Law of Arbitration), September 2017
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CRCICA has held “the Comparative Commercial Arbitration: Theory and Practice” since 2011, as the first comparative arbitration program in the Arab World with a simultaneous bilateral tutorial methodology that combines Civil Law and Common Law systems. The program covers the main arbitration stages being the arbitration agreement, the arbitral tribunal, the arbitral proceedings and finally the arbitral award. As of 2016, the course was accredited as an equivalent course to Module 2: Law of Arbitration qualifying for the membership of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
On 17-23 September 2017, the sixth annual round of the course was held and tutored by Dr. Ismail Selim, CRCICA Director, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Raouf, Attorney at Law, Partner; Abdel Raouf Law Firm, and Prof. Dr. Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, Chair of Private International Law and Professor of Dispute Resolution at Cairo University; Founding Partner and Head of International Arbitration, Zulficar & Partners Law Firm; Vice-President, ICC International Court of Arbitration.
38 Participants were in attendance, who were mostly independent lawyers, judges, private sector in-house lawyers, government and public sector lawyers and engineers.
Reference texts comprised an unprecedented collection of documents including comparative state court decisions of the European (British, French and Swiss), American and Arab (Egyptian, Saudi, Sudanese, Tunisian, Emirati, Iraqi and Syrian) jurisdictions; a unique collection of arbitration arbitral principles extracted from awards of many international arbitration institutions including CRCICA; national laws, model and institutional arbitration rules, international agreements and court judgments, the IBA Guidelines on Conflict of Interest in International Arbitration, the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration, the IBA Guidelines for Drafting International Arbitration Clauses, analytical articles as well as expert commentaries.
The last day of the program was fully devoted to assessments through a number of mock cases carefully prepared as based on CRCICA accumulative experience over 40 years nearly in the administration of arbitration cases. Assessments consisted of two sections, each composing of a number of questions and mock cases out of which participants have to define the legal problems and provide their legal opinion based on the course. Participants were also required to draft procedural decision. A take-home assignment, consisting of the drafting of a complete award, was also required.
The course was a real success and was very well received as a unique comparative arbitration course qualifying practitioners to partake in international arbitrations under any jurisdictions.
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