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Paula Hodges QC Takes Over as LCIA President, Karyl Nairn QC is appointed as A Vice-President and Three Other ArbitralWomen Members Are Appointed to the LCIA Court
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Paula Hodges QC Takes Over as LCIA President, Karyl Nairn QC is appointed as A Vice-President and Three Other ArbitralWomen Members Are Appointed to the LCIA Court
On 15 May 2019, the LCIA announced the election of eleven new members of the LCIA Court, including three ArbitralWomen members, Anneliese Day QC, Ank Santens and May Tai. In addition, Paula Hodges QC has stepped into the role of President of the Court, and Karyl Nairn QC has been promoted to a Vice President of the Court.
Anneliese Day QC of Fountain Court Chambers has been appointed as a member of the LCIA Court with effect from May 2019. Anneliese acts as lead counsel and arbitrator in respect of commercial, energy, construction, investment treaty, insurance and professional negligence disputes in both a national and international context. Anneliese speaks English, French and Spanish and is recommended by Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 in London, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. She was named as Construction Barrister of the Year at the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards 2018, Construction and Energy Silk of the Year 2018 at the Legal 500 UK Awards, Barrister of the Year 2014 by The Lawyer and selected as one of the 500 most influential people in the UK by Debretts in 2015.
Ank Santens, a partner at White & Case LLP, has been appointed as a member of the LCIA Court with effect from May 2019. Ank is based in New York and acts as counsel and arbitrator in commercial, investment and construction arbitrations. Ank is admitted in New York and as a solicitor in England and Wales. She is a member of the Board of CPR and Delos Dispute Resolution, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA) and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA).
May Tai, managing partner at Herbert Smith Freehills’ Greater China Practice, has been appointed as a member of the LCIA Court with effect from May 2019. May is based in Hong Kong and specialises in cross-border China-related and regional Asian disputes and contentious regulatory matters. May is qualified as a solicitor of England and Wales and Hong Kong and speaks Bahasa (Malaysian and Indonesian), Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and English.
Karyl Nairn QC, a partner and global co-head of the International Litigation and Arbitration Group at Skadden, has been appointed as a Vice President of the LCIA Court with effect from 13 May 2019. Karyl acts as arbitrator and counsel in complex international commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, across a variety of sectors. Karyl is recognised as a leader in her field by the Chambers Guide, the Legal 500 and Who's Who.
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Policy on Funding Moot Competition Teams
Each year ArbitralWomen provides support to a number of Teams who participate in dispute resolution competitions, such as the Vis or Vis East International Arbitration Moot by covering their registration fee.
Following are the conditions for the funding:
Any qualified team requesting financial assistance must complete an application form providing details of the teams, resources, and the reason for the requested assistance. The application form is available on the website, and may be amended from time to time as the Board deems appropriate.
The Board, through its Moot Bursary Committee, shall consider all applications received and decide which team(s) shall be supported through payment of its(their) registration fee to compete. In general, teams selected will be from different countries. Applications filed after the deadline will be disregarded.
Criteria of selection:
The team must reflect ArbitralWomen's mission of promoting the participation of women in dispute resolution, i.e. at least half of the members of a team must be women.
The team must demonstrate the need for financial assistance.
Priority will be given to teams:
who have not previously participated, and whose school has not previously participated;
who have no support from their universities or no coach;
who come from developing countries or jurisdictions which, in the sole discretion of the Board, are in the greatest need of support for the advancement of women in dispute resolution;
of smaller number of students composing the team (for example 4 students as opposed to 8).
An all-female team may be awarded the ArbitralWomen President’s Bursary if the other requirements are met.
Nothing in this Policy prevents a team, which has already received funding in one year, from applying in future years. The Board shall treat each application on its merits and in relation to other applications received for that particular year.
The Board shall effect payment to the final payee rather than directly to the team. In the event the team for any reason cannot participate, the Board at its sole option may request a refund from the organising authority, may request the organising authority to apply the funds to assist another team in that year, or may request that the funds be used to pay for another team in the following year.
Funding will, in the first instance, be sought from external sponsors, who shall be identified and introduced to the sponsored team(s). Further funding by ArbitralWomen itself in any given year will be contingent upon the existence and maintenance of sufficient funds in the account of ArbitralWomen. Each year, the Board will decide the number of awards to be given in that year. Nothing in this Policy obliges the Board to provide funding in any given year.
Although the ArbitralWomen Moot Bursaries are limited to payment of the registration fee, as mentioned above, there is nothing to prevent the chosen sponsors from providing additional assistance to the teams assigned as their "fundee", but any such arrangement will be made directly between the sponsor and the applicable team.
