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Dubai Arbitration Week 2025 Sponsorship
Dubai Arbitration Week 2025 Sponsorship
Ciarb UAE Branch is pleased to offer an opportunity to sponsor our event during Dubai Arbitration Week 2025.
Event date: 10 November 2025
Location: Waldorf Astoria DIFC
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm
To express your interest as a sponsor or for further details please reach out to our Events Coordinator Mohieeldin Elbana - mohieeldin@qaflegal.com
Best Wishes,
Ciarb UAE Branch
Dubai Arbitration Week 2025- CIArb Young Members Group, Annual Debate Series 10 November 2025, 9:30am - 12:30pm, Waldorf Astoria, DIFC
Dubai Arbitration Week 2025- CIArb Young Members Group, Annual Debate Series 10 November 2025, 9:30am - 12:30pm, Waldorf Astoria, DIFC
We are delighted to invite you to the CIArb Young Members Group Annual Debate Series, taking place during Dubai Arbitration Week.
Event Details:
Date: Monday, 10 November 2025
Time: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Venue: Waldorf Astoria, DIFC
Programme Highlights:
The event will bring together distinguished young professionals and subject matter experts to debate four pressing topics in arbitration:
- Debate 1: Tribunal-appointed experts provide greater impartiality than party-appointed experts
- Debate 2: Mediation should be mandatory before arbitration proceedings
- Debate 3: Arbitral institutions should impose mandatory diversity quotas for appointments
- Debate 4: Arbitrators should be allowed to use AI in their decision-making
Schedule:
- 9:30 AM – Networking
- 9:50 AM – Opening Remarks
- 10:00 AM – Debates 1 to 4
- 12:00 PM – Standing Buffet Lunch
Registration:
This is a complimentary in-person event. To register your interest email jc_ciarb@yahoo.com.
We look forward to seeing you there for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking morning of debate and discussion.
Speaker announcements will follow through our Linkedin channels.
Kind regards,
Ciarb YMG
Introducing the new leaders of Ciarb UAE Branch Sept 2025
Introducing the new leaders of Ciarb UAE Branch Sept 2025
Dear Members,
We are excited to introduce the newly elected Committee of the UAE Branch of Ciarb. Together, this group brings experience, energy, and a shared commitment to advancing the effectiveness of dispute resolution in the UAE and beyond.
Your 2025 Committee
- Co-Chairs: Reshma Oogorah FCIArb & Kasia Halliday FCIArb
- Dubai Vice-Chair: Zeina Obeid FCIArb
- Abu Dhabi Vice-Chair: Maria Mazzawi FCIArb
- Honorary Secretary: Soraya Corm-Bakhos FCIArb
- Honorary Treasurer (Co-opted): Juan Olwagen FCIArb
- Education & Training Officer: Kate Blotskaya MCIArb
- Public Relations Officer: Hannah Dennehy ACIArb
- Event Coordinator (Co-opted): Mohieeldin Elbana MCIArb
- Webmaster: Haitham Mokhtar MCIArb
- Data Manager: Monif Lotfy FCIArb
- Membership Secretary: Glenn Trueick FCIArb
- Committee Members:
- Robert Sliwinski C.Arb FCIArb (Immediate Past Chair)
- Aarta Alkarimi C.Arb FCIArb
- Jonathan Sutcliffe FCIArb
- Hiba Al Abiad FCIArb
- Mohamed Amara FCIArb
- Additional Co-opted Members:
- Melissa McLaren MCIArb (Co-Chair of the Ciarb UAE Young Members Group)
- Mike Caddick FCIArb (Co-Chair of the Ciarb UAE Young Members Group)
The Committee’s priorities include:
- Serving our members by putting their needs at the heart of our work
- Enhancing training and learning opportunities, including Arabic language courses and mediation
- Delivering engaging events and networking platforms to connect its members
- Strengthening partnerships across the ADR community
- Promoting diversity, inclusion, and innovation in practice
To help us shape the future, we will be surveying members in the coming weeks. Please do share your feedback and ideas to help us move in the right direction.
We look forward to your active participation in shaping the years ahead.
Warm regards,
Ciarb UAE Branch
CIArb UAE Branch Newsletter / July 2025
CIArb UAE Branch Newsletter / July 2025
Please click on the link below to view the news letter
The Art of Efficiency: Strategies for enhancing arbitration procedures and optimal dispute resolution 2024
The Art of Efficiency: Strategies for enhancing arbitration procedures and optimal dispute resolution 2024
Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre
14 November 2024
Dubai Arbitration Week (DAW) attracts an increasing number of professional practitioners from around the world with a wide variety of experience in dispute resolution. DAW offered 150 events on a range of topics and Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) welcomed approximately 1,500 attendees.
Ciarb UAE Branch delivered two panel discussions during the week. This first session featured:
Keynote from Jonathan Wood FCIArb
Moderator: Robert Sliwinski C.Arb FCIArb
Speakers:
Dr. Mohamed Amara
Julian Cohen FCIArb
Tariq Khan
Maria Mazzawi FCIArb
Ema Saeed
Paul Thornton
Closing remarks from Aarta Alkarimi C.Arb FCIArb
The Plurality and Synergies of Legal Traditions in International Arbitration: Looking beyond the common and civil law divide 2024
The Plurality and Synergies of Legal Traditions in International Arbitration: Looking beyond the common and civil law divide 2024
Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre
14 November 2024
Dubai Arbitration Week (DAW) attracts an increasing number of professional practitioners from around the world with a wide variety of experience in dispute resolution. DAW offered 150 events on a range of topics and Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) welcomed approximately 1,500 attendees.
Ciarb UAE Branch delivered two panel discussions during the week. This second session featured:
Keynote from Stavros Brekoulakis
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Nayla Comair-Obeid C.Arb FCIArb
Speakers:
Andrea Carlevaris
Don Jeon
Noradele Ghubril Radjai
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Wahab C.Arb FCIArb
Closing remarks from Dr. Gordon Blanke MCIArb
Launch of the Mediation Hub MENA 2024
Launch of the Mediation Hub MENA 2024
Ritz Carlton, Dubai
14 November 2024
Ciarb UAE Branch supported the launch of the Mediation Hub MENA during Dubai Arbitration Week. The Mediation Hub MENA extended their gratitude to Ciarb UAE Branch and The Law for their support, and announced exciting future plans and initiatives.
Speakers:
Ziad Ali - CEO, The Law
Ahmad Alozn – Co-founder, Mediation Hub MENA
Christine Maksoud MCIArb – Founder and Director, Mediation Hub MENA
Abdallah El Shehaby FCIArb – Partner, Jurisera
Robert Sliwinski C.Arb FCIArb – Chair, Ciarb UAE Branch
Ciarb UAE Branch Annual General Meeting 2024
Ciarb UAE Branch Annual General Meeting 2024
At Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in the DIFC, Dubai
2 July 2024
The AGM, which approved the election of members to the Branch Committee for 2024, was attended by 30 members in person with others joining online.
Seminar presented by LexisNexis Legal:
There was also a seminar presented by Calum Birse from LexisNexis Legal & Professional, on their newly developed Lexis+ AI, which they consider to be the fastest legal generative AI with conversational search, drafting, summarization, document analysis, and misleading results-free linked legal citations.
Ciarb UAE Branch Event: Ciarb Mediation Roundtable 2024
Ciarb UAE Branch Event: Ciarb Mediation Roundtable 2024
Al Aidarous, ADGM office in Abu Dhabi
4 July 2024
The presentation included a discussion of the UAE Federal Decree Law No. 40 of 2023, concerning mediation and conciliation in civil and commercial disputes.
Speakers:
Hashem AlAidarous
Haitham Mokhta
Robert Sliwinski C.Arb FCIArb
Sean Yates FCIArb
Wolf von Kumberg FCIArb
UAE YMG Debates 2022
UAE YMG Debates 2022
Waldorf Astoria, Dubai International Financial Center
16 November 2022
The Young Members Group UAE Branch Debates saw lively discussions focusing on pressing industry topics.
Branch Focus: UAE 2022
Branch Focus: UAE 2022
Glenn Trueick FCIArb was interviewed about the activities and plans of the Ciarb UAE Branch in 2022.
Ciarb UAE Branch Conference 2022
Ciarb UAE Branch Conference 2022
Waldorf Astoria, Dubai International Financial Center
15 November 2022
This one-day conference focused on energy disputes, covering topics including boundary disputes, and commercial, pipeline and energy transportation disputes.
Dispute Resolution Trends in Iberia and the UAE 2022
Dispute Resolution Trends in Iberia and the UAE 2022
This article followed a successful joint event held by the Ciarb UAE Branch and Ciarb Iberian Chapter. The authors explore changes to ADR institutions and rules in the two jurisdictions, analysing the similarities and differences to identify prevalent trends.