Mr Justice Bourne gave the claimants in the London Capital & Finance (LCF) judicial review case to permission to take their case to the Court of Appeal. The appeal must be filed before 11 June 2021.
Matthew Gearing QC, a former co-head of Allen & Overy’s global arbitration group, and a former chair of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), is set to join Fountain Court Chambers on May 3.
In January, the UK’s Essex Court Chambers had announced that Gearing would be joining it. However, since then, Essex Court was sanctioned by the Chinese government over a Jan. 26 legal opinion penned by the four members of the chambers on the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
Gearing is presently at Allen & Overy, where he spent more than two decades, becoming a partner in 2005. He took Silk in 2014.
Mediation bodies seal international alliance in Singapore to improve standards
28 April 2021
Five groups from across globe team up to promote cross-cultural awareness and improve training
Singapore Shutterstock Five international mediation training bodies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Singapore aimed at raising international mediation standards. The group has pledged ‘to develop mediation into a recognised and viable profession’ in a move that builds on the Singapore Convention on Mediation, which came into force last September and which allows for the easier enforcement by national courts of international settlement agreements, much as the New York Convention does for arbitration awards.
By Jemma Slingo2021-04-27T10:37:00+01:00
Barristers across the British Isles have condemned China’s ‘bullying and punitive measures’ against lawyers in the wake of a legal opinion concerning alleged human rights violations against the Uyghur population.
The Bar Councils of England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Ireland, together with Scotland’s Faculty of Advocates, said China had launched an ‘indiscriminate attack’ on lawyers which was ‘inconsistent with respect for the rule of law’.
Last month, the Chinese government imposed sanctions against Essex Court Chambers after four members gave a legal opinion relating to issues arising from alleged human rights violations by the Chinese authorities against the Uyghur population in the Xinjiang Province. Several barristers, including senior QCs, have since moved chambers.
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