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Abdul Sattar

Withersworldwide
Abdul is a knowledge lawyer in the international arbitration and public international law team at Withers LLP. He is responsible for keeping the team up to date, legal training, ensuring know-how is shared and promoting the practice. Prior to joining Withers, Abdul spent a decade in private practice acting for a range of clients involved in cross border disputes.  He has extensive experience of high-value arbitration (under various institutional rules), litigation and mediation.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2011

Experience

  • Fieldfisher LLP (2017 - 2022)
  • Slaughter and May (2016 - 2017)
  • Burges Salmon LLP (2014 - 2016)
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (2009 - 2013)

Membership

  • Association of Litigation Professional Support (ALPS)
  • The Arbitration Support and Knowhow group (ASK)
  • London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA)

Qualifications

  • City Consortium Legal Practice Course (2009)
  • Masters in International Relations (2007)
  • LLB Law with French (First) (2006)
  • Diplôme d'études juridiques françaises (2005)

Education

  • BPP Law School, (2009)
  • College of Europe (Bruges), (2007)
  • University of Leicester, (2006)
  • Université Robert Schuman, (2005)

1 Contributions by Abdul Sattar

Arbitration in the British Virgin Islands: Legislation, Court Assistance, Confidentiality, Enforcement (New York Convention/ICSID), Interim Relief, Insolvency, State Immunity and the BVI International Arbitration Centre
PRACTICE NOTES
Arbitration in the British Virgin Islands: Legislation, Court Assistance, Confidentiality, Enforcement (New York Convention/ICSID), Interim Relief, Insolvency, State Immunity and the BVI International Arbitration Centre
Introduction This Practice Note aims to present a succinct outline of the arbitration environment in the Territory of the Virgin Islands (the ‘BVI’). For background purposes, the BVI is a British Overseas Territory. It possesses its own constitution (the Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007, which superseded the Virgin Islands Constitution Order 1976), its own legislature, which is responsible for enacting laws, and its own distinct system of government. UK law forms part of BVI law where it is expressly received into local law or where it constitutes an element of the common law (Common Law Declaration of Application Act (Cap 13), section 2). Note: the cases mentioned below are reported by LexisNexis® The legislative framework The BVI’s first arbitration statute was the Arbitration Act 1976 (the ‘1976 Act’). The 1976 Act was not amended or updated following its original enactment and remained comparatively narrow in scope and detail overall...
Arbitration
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